Kirtan Rabbi Blog

Monthly Archives: March 2011

The Desert Sun, Palm Springs

Andrew Hahn doesn’t have a synagogue where he leads weekly services. His rabbinate is a bit less traditional.

Hahn, the Kirtan Rabbi or Reb Drew as he’s also known, uses some unconventional tools to introduce Jewish philosophy to a wider audience by leading call-and-response concerts at yoga studios and synagogues around the country.

L.A. Jewish Journal

People twirl ecstatically, eyes closed, repeating, in a call-and-response fashion, chants led by Rabbi Andrew Hahn, who plays a harmonium while others play guitars and percussion instruments — repetitive, hypnotic sounds that seductively nudge the crowd, young and old alike, to sway and swirl and chant.