Or baLev is Hebrew for:  

Light in the heart 

  

            

 








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Concerts, Festivities, Religious celebrations, Workshops 

This light of the heart is what the ensemble strives to express,  connecting performers and listeners through the music.

Ensemble Or Balev has been established by singer/composer of Jewish liturgic music, Navah-Tehila, who wishes with her music to recreate the lost world of her Chassidic-Polish ancestors, thus building a bridge from  heart to heart, across boundaries of culture and religion.

The ensemble consist of:
Voice (Navah-Tehila), accordion (Bas van Vliet), violin (Andrea Veenhuyzen) and/or piano.

Performances:
Performances and activities  in and out of the Netherlands are offered  in  diverse locations such as:
synagogues, churches, spiritual centers, private celebrations and the like.


Programs/Themes
including background information: 

One can choose from a variety of themes, such as:
The Psalms, Song of Songs, Jerusalem , Jewish festivals, Shabbat, Rabbi Nachman, 
The Seven days of Creation and more. 

It is also possible to choose for a ”specially for you” created program.

The repertory is rich and broad:
                                         Jewish spiritual and synagogal music
                                         traditional-chassidic, Israeli, yiddisch/Ladino music
                                         newly composed music, inspired by ancient Biblical and 
                                         other Hebrew texts.  

Two CD's are available:

                                        1.Songs on a narrow bridge
                                           Psalms and Chassidic music 

                                        2.Song of Songs: Reflections of love and light
  
                                          Text and music inspired by the Song of Songs 
                                            

 

 

Listen to the song 
"A Narrow Bridge"   

Listen to the song 
"Not On Bread Alone" 
  

Click here for some reactions on performances and cd's


   ש ל ו ם SHALOM