The Alephonics Podcast

Dan Berry
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Every week, pianist and composer Dan Berry takes a phrase from that week's Torah portion, opens up the Hebrew letters, and plays what's inside — an original piece of music built from the phrase itself. Ancient words, live improvisation, new piece every week. A soundtrack for the week you're actually in.

Episodes

  1. 6d ago ·  Video

    001 - Ki Savo: The Sound of Arriving

    This week: Ki Savo — כי תבוא. The parsha opens on arrival. When you come into the land. Not a journey, not a promise — the moment of actually walking in. 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 likeThe mapping, one letter at a timeThe piece: this week's soundtrack, improvised on the mapComing into your own landHear a word yourself  Put in your own name, someone else's, or any word you're sitting with — and hear what's inside it. Free. → alephonics.com Subscribe  New episode every week, keyed to that week's parsha. Apple · Spotify · YouTube. About Dan  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. https://www.alephonics.com

  2. Aug 23 ·  Video

    Welcome to the Alephonics Podcast

    Welcome to the Alephonics Podcast, where every week, pianist and composer Dan Berry takes a phrase from that week's Torah portion, opens up the Hebrew letters, and plays what's inside — an original piece of music built from the phrase itself.  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 alphabetWhat Kabbalah actually claims about the letters, and why it isn't a metaphorAdam's job description"Living with the times" — and what changes when the week has a soundtrackAll 22 letters, playedOne phrase, mapped and performedHear 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 Subscribe 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

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Every week, pianist and composer Dan Berry takes a phrase from that week's Torah portion, opens up the Hebrew letters, and plays what's inside — an original piece of music built from the phrase itself. Ancient words, live improvisation, new piece every week. A soundtrack for the week you're actually in.

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  • Creator
    Dan Berry
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Alephonics Podcast
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