Yaki Lauer

About Yaki Lauer

Yaki Lauer is a chazzan on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 124+ of his recordings can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Yaki Lauer is a chazzan, and his channel is a library of the great chazzanut of the synagogue - the prayers of Shabbos, Yom Tov and the Days of Awe, sung by the cantors who carry the tradition and recorded in the great synagogues of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan and in concert halls from Krakow, Lublin, Budapest and Prague to South Africa. He sings in many of them himself: Maoz Tzur and Kaddish, Kabbalas Shabbos with the conductor Gabriel Chouraqui, the Havdalah of Sol Zim in concert at the Tempel synagogue in Krakow, "Adonai Mah Adam" by Louis Lewandowski with the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir, and Selichos with Chazzan Leizer Brook at the Dovev Oz synagogue in Ramat Gan.

For the Days of Awe there are Selichos from the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv with Chazzan Chaim Adler and the Great Synagogue of Ramat Gan with Chazzan Moti Boyer - "Eich Niftach Peh", "Machnisei Rachamim", "Al Tashlicheinu", "Ashamnu". Unesaneh Tokef is sung by Naftali Hershtik with his son Netanel, by Alberto Mizrachi and by Dudu Fisher, with Maestro Elli Jaffe; Kol Nidrei by Naftali Hershtik with the Great Synagogue choir; Avinu Malkeinu of David Kusevitzky by Chazzan Yaakov Stark; "HaYom Te'amtzeinu" of Yossele Rosenblatt by Moshe Stern and Ben Zion Miller; and "Uveshofar Gadol" with Alberto Mizrachi and Israel Rand.

Shabbos and Yom Tov have their own room: Lecha Dodi to the Dzhikov tune with the great cantors, Kabbalas Shabbos, "Retzei Vimnuchaseinu" and "Kadsheinu BeMitzvosecha", "Yismach Moshe", the zemiros "Kah Ribon" and "Tzur Mishelo", Shalom Aleichem by Sol Zim, Havdalah by Ben Zion Miller with the Paamonim ensemble in Krakow, "Al HaNissim" and "HaNeros Halalu" for Chanukah, and the Hallel of Modzitz.

The great composers of chazzanut are heard in their own works: Yossele Rosenblatt's "Shir HaMaalos", "Kevakaras Ro'eh Edro", "Mimkomcha", "Teka BeShofar", "Shomer Yisrael" and "Ki Vi Yirbu"; David Kusevitzky's "Ana Avda" by Helfgot and by Avremi Kirshenbaum; Leib Glantz's "Shema Yisrael"; Moshe Ganchoff's "Habet MiShamayim"; Lewandowski's "Uvenucho Yomar"; and on the eighty-second year after his passing, Chazzan Dovid'l Heller sings at Yossele Rosenblatt's resting place on the Mount of Olives.

Beside them stand the great cantors one by one - Naftali Hershtik with "Elu Devarim", "Lo Amus", "Yigdal" and the Torah service; Ben Zion Miller with "Shema Koleinu", "Vechol HaChaim" and the song of the Tanya; Israel Rand with "Ani Maamin", "Baavur David" and Shehecheyanu; Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, Alberto Mizrachi, Yaakov Motzen, Moshe Schulhof, Chaim Leizer Hershtik with his son Sruly, Shimon Farkas from Australia, Colin Schachat, Ari Klein and Nathan Lam - and the concerts where they gather, before thousands, with Maestro Elli Jaffe and the Israel Philharmonic. Each recording opens on its own page, with no ads and no comments around it.

You can search inside the songs by what was said, play the whole catalog back to back, or follow Yaki Lauer to be told when something new comes in.