Hebrew Liturgies Resound in Jerusalem! Father Aleksandr Winogradsky Frenkel heads the Hebrew Eastern Orthodox communities in the Holy Land/Israeli society and serves in the Old City of Jerusalem with the blessing of The Rum-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Since 1841, the Russian Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, before the re-establishment of the Patriarchate of Moscow in 1917, had launched the prayer in the Hebrew language at Jerusalem. Hebrew is today the official language of the State of Israel and the usual medium for studying the tradition of the Scriptures.
Archpriest Alexander Winogradsky Frenkel has been appointed to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in 1998 in order to organize the communities for the Eastern Orthodox faithful in the Israeli society.
Fr. Aleksandr has been celebrating in Hebrew and also in Yiddish and other Jewish tongues for the Slavic-language speakers who arrived in Israel over the past decades. Israel is a living laboratory for the revival of Hebrew as a tongue and also the ingathering of people of all races, tongues and ethnicity. Thus, it is important to re-deploy in the Church presence of Judaism and to pave to way for more understanding between Christianity and the different forms of Jewishness.
There are various programs: video-tapes, booklets, a specific chapel in the Southern Desert.
thanks for this post. it just sounds right…
I have viewed this before; Hebrew is such a “beautiful” languge, especelly when it is used at
the Divine Liturgy!!!!
I could listen to the second video over and over again, Would LOVE a quality recording of the FULL Divine Liturgy in Hebrew especially the cherubic hymn!
Father Alexandr, I am thrilled to see and hear the Divine Liturgy in the Hebrew language. I pray daily that the Jewish people will wake up and recognize their Messiah as the Anointed One, the Promised One. The Lord Jesus Christ will one day, I believe, will return to Jerusalem to claim the People of The Book as His own. Slava Isusu Christu.
As a Ukrainian Jewish convert to orthodoxy, it is such a blessing to hear the liturgy in the Hebrew tongue, may The Lord God, maker of heaven and earth bless the Church in Jerusalem and all orthodox Christians around the world! ???? ??. Maranatha, come Lord ???? Jesus
Thank you for making this available. It was a blessing to learn of it and listen to it.
Thank you Father for this beautiful blessing. I am a convert to orthodoxy from a Jewish background and I used to live in Israel (now in Toronto, Canada).
Where can I find a print copy of the Divine Liturgy in Hebrew?
You’d have to contact the priest in the article. Sorry, that is all we have.