Yair Levi walks in the Temple Mount - The holiest place in the world

hi we're here on the Temple Mount today with a very special guest Israeli singer and songwriter yair Levy yair is descended from the Levites those who served as the priests in the temple and saying every day in the temple choir yair's music uses to hilum or the Psalms of David to create beautiful music for all Israelis and people all around the world to enjoy the year is inspired by finding the ancient maladies of the temple so that we can ReDiscover what it may have sounded like when we visited the temple and prayed today we're going to travel all around the Temple mount with yair and he's going to tell us why he uses music to celebrate the Mitzvah of Ascension with the world come on let's go singer songwriter from Israel Israeli and actually I'm right here in the mosque in the holiest place in the world after 2000 years we I'm still so honored to work in this uh pad that my grand grandfathers could only dream as the liver is even much more special because my grand grandfather is my forefathers were standing here on the Temple Mount and was thinking in the temple there was a stairs with a with a bench big bench the big band was Israeli people more than 40 liver that was singing I don't know exactly how it was but I can imagine that it was like an amazing harmonies and my forefather was standing here for two reasons first is for the people that was going up to the Temple Mount second what they was doing that this is not a lot of people know there was part of the sacrified ceremony the kohen the priest couldn't sacrifice without the Levi singing so the singing of the levite was something very special and without a levite some of the ceremonies couldn't uh business this is exactly the place where delivered was standing um this is amazing for me to be here I don't think that they have enough words for this at all it's amazing as a Jews we believe that we are coming here to serve to serve to serve the Jews to serve the Nations to serve the entire world it's not that we are one to build a temple for the Jewish people it's not a purpose and this is why it's called House of Prayer for all nations I always remember that if I will get the call because my business and to just stand here to sing I'm ready even if it will happen today and this is when I'm walking here and asking myself like are you gonna do it you're gonna cancel all your concept and everything and all your plans and just stand here and sing yeah and this is the this is the answer I'm going up to the mountain for more than 15 years I think and it's amazing see how it's grow every time every year how more and more people coming up to the mountain and this is so uh moving I see all those people that coming up praying praying for peace this is what we're praying actually and how it's grow how the movement of the movement of the Temple Mount going up to the mountain is growing grow the big mistake that we are doing a lot we are singing if I forget you oh Jerusalem made my may my right hand forget this sounds is about the music we think it's about about the temple itself but actually it's a it's one of the most famous songs that talk about the music the Levi's they don't want to sing the song from the temple outside of Israel and I can I can understand it I want to sing the song of of the temple my dream is to fulfill the dream of those Levites in Babylon that say we want to sing the song of the Lord I'm working a lot of finding those ancient melodies and I find it very hard to find because that the people of Israel took it so hard the destruction of the Temple they stop singing those melodies and those Melodies have secrets that could heal and could have the Quran the priest to sacrifice and one of my purpose in my life is to find those Melodies we we have tradition that some of those Melodies came from Mount Sinai so I found some of very ancient Melodies In Yaman and in Tunisia and I'm trying to collect more and more Melodies that I know that for sure there are more than 1 000 years old and then it means that maybe there was a melodies of King David one of them is goes like this this sounds 96. for me as a musician as a singer to find those Melodies this is like something that can be kind of kind of a miracle for me I invited everybody to come of course to make me before and to come into Ava but to go up it's so important it's not my dream it's a dream of all the Jews all over the world and actually all the nations to rebuild the Temple this is what we pray every day a couple of times you'll leave the choir if this is what I need to do [Music] foreign [Music] is under yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] gone close [Music] foreign [Music] beautiful [Music] yeah yeah [Music]