{"id":64239,"date":"2026-07-25T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/?p=64239"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:21:25","slug":"yitzchak-hayak-dor-asaraf-launch-new-melodies-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/yitzchak-hayak-dor-asaraf-launch-new-melodies-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Yitzchak Hayak &#038; Dor Asaraf Launch New Melodies Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Musician and arranger<strong> Yitzchak Hayak<\/strong>, together with saxophone artist <strong>Dor Asaraf<\/strong>, are launching a new instrumental melodies project designed to touch the heart through music &#8211; without words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first melody in the project is &#8220;<strong>Yerushalayim<\/strong>&#8220;, which was chosen to be released at the end of Bein Hametzarim. Through the new arrangement, the two seek to evoke longing, prayer, and hope for the building of Jerusalem, and to remind us that even from destruction, hope grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original performance: Itay David<br \/>Arrangement: Yitzchak Hayak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saxophone and flute: Dor Asaraf<br \/>Keyboards and programming: Yitzchak Hayak<br \/>Drums: Shlomi Ben Simon Guitars: David Cohen<br \/>Mixing and mastering Yakov Blass<br \/>Recorded at: Hayak Studio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cover design: Yarin Alush<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public relations: BaFront<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jj18QE1b17M?si=c6R-NoCLfxg24NEj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician and arranger Yitzchak Hayak, together with saxophone artist Dor Asaraf, are launching a new instrumental melodies project designed to touch the heart through music &#8211; without words. The first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,68,8744],"tags":[22819,20533,3873,23020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64241,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64239\/revisions\/64241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}