03.05.2026 –, (EG) Büren Sprache: English
Can a collection of psalms function as a remedy? Jewish tradition has often treated the Psalms not only as prayer or poetry, but as spiritually potent forms of speech with distinct uses and effects. This session explores Tikkun HaKlali, the famous sequence of ten psalms presented by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov as a “general remedy” for inner impurity and spiritual brokenness, and asks how such an idea emerged, what it meant in its original setting, and how it continues to resonate through text, ritual voice, and melody.
The Book of Psalms is often read as literature, liturgy, or devotion. But Jewish tradition also preserves a more provocative claim: that psalms can do more than express the soul — they can help repair it.
This session offers a musical and participatory encounter with Tikkun HaKlali, the well-known Breslov collection of ten psalms taught as a “general remedy.” Brief references to Pesaḥim 117a, Likutei Moharan, and Sichot HaRan 141 will offer just enough context to illuminate the practice without overwhelming the experience. The heart of the session, however, is not extended analysis but lived encounter: hearing the psalms, following them through accessible translation, and experiencing how text, melody, and ritual voice can open a space of reflection, resonance, and inner repair.
Dani Zekhry spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about what happens when Jewish texts stop sitting silently and obscurely on the page and begin to come alive—when they are sung, understood, questioned, and reinterpreted in conversation with the contemporary world.
Born into a Hebrew-speaking Mizrahi Jewish family in Brazil, he has spent a good part of his life serving Jewish communities there—as Madrich, Chazan, teacher of Jewish music, Hebrew, liturgy, cantillation, and B’nei Mitzvah, Torah reader, and educational and religious coordinator. He even worked as a security agent for EL AL during the years when the airline flew to São Paulo. Now a second-year rabbinical student at the Abraham Geiger Kolleg, he is bringing that long-standing commitment into a broader international setting, including service in Germany and in Vilnius, where he has worked as Chazan, Torah reader, teacher of cantillation, and as a rabbinical student serving in a rabbinic capacity.
His work is shaped by a commitment to Jewish learning, spiritual leadership, interreligious dialogue, a deep belief in the equal dignity of all human beings, and to making inherited liturgy audible, meaningful, and alive across languages, generations, and communal settings.