Eli Benedict on Clubhouse

Bio

“Of night and light and the half-light” (W.B. Yeats)

I am between worlds, the holy and the profane, Heaven and Earth, light and dark, I am a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reaching to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. a story of half-light, the space between day and night, of a formless void,

And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the abyss.

“There is nothing more whole than a broken heart, just as there is nothing more straight than a crooked ladder.” - The Kotzker Rebbe.
my name is Eli Benedict, I grew up in an ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic, Jewish community, in Israel. I am no longer religious, but I am a social activist who defines himself: a secular Hasid. I live in Montreal, but visit Israel frequently, I am active for the culture of Ashkenazi Jewry and Yiddish. I am part of a researcher, writer. I run a Yiddish museum called 'Yung Yidish' in Tel Aviv. I am also the program director of th 'League for Yiddish'. I am generally a collector and I'm engaged in rescue of Ashkenazi treasures and collections around the world. I'm working to set up a museum in Montreal as well. I am a dancer who researches and teaches Ashkenazi dance, and klezmer.🕺