So that's the phrase we mapped: כי תבוא אל הארץ — Ki Savo el Ha'aretz. Every letter has a voice. Put them in that order and you get a musical signature for the whole portion — and then something new gets built on top of it, live.

Dan's frame for the week, as he plays it: the land isn't only out there. There's an inner one. Your own territory, your own desire, your own true will — and the question of what it takes to actually walk into it rather than circle it for another year.

Press play, then keep it with you for the week.

In this episode

• Ki Savo, opened up — what the letters of כי תבוא אל הארץ sound like
• The mapping, one letter at a time
• The piece: this week's soundtrack, improvised on the map
• Coming into your own land

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Dan Berry is a jazz pianist and composer, a chossid, and a Princeton-trained musician with 18 years in deep Torah and Hebrew study. He built the Alephonic Mapping Method to experience Torah in the only language he's ever been fluent in... music.

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This episode is the whole idea in one sitting: what the Alephonic Mapping Method is, where it comes from, why a word can be played, and what happens when you spend a week living inside one.

You'll hear all twenty-two letters, one at a time, aleph to tav. Then you'll watch a single phrase get opened up, mapped, and played.

And then you'll hear the piece from the top of the episode again. Same recording. It won't sound like the same thing.

That's the show. Every week from here: one phrase from that week's Torah portion, opened up and played — a soundtrack for the week you're actually in.

In this episode

• Why the aleph-bet is an instrument and not just an alphabet
• What Kabbalah actually claims about the letters, and why it isn't a metaphor
• Adam's job description
• "Living with the times" — and what changes when the week has a soundtrack
• All 22 letters, played
• One phrase, mapped and performed

Hear a word yourself

Put in your own name, or pick a verse from this week's Torah portion, and hear it mapped. Free, and there's a Hebrew keyboard right on the screen — you don't need to know how to type any of this. → www.alephonics.com

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New episode every week. Apple · Spotify · YouTube · or wherever you listen.

About Dan

Dan Berry is a Jewish pianist and composer with a degree from Princeton in music theory and composition plus 18 years in advanced Torah and Hebrew study. He built the Alephonic Mapping Method to experience Torah in the only language he's ever been fluent in... music.

https://www.alephonics.com - @alephonics