In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 (Prof. Dalia Cohen thesis advisor) on the original performance of the Tiberian Masoretic Accents, a pioneering work then praised by five Israel Prize laureates and published as The Masoretic Chant of the Bible (R. Mass 1995), and he is presently involved in several related projects at the JMRC: An extensive memoire on the Noble Tone system of the Masoretic tradition, including some probing through cognitive experiment, the publication of a comparative study with Beta Israel material (Olivier Tourny, co-author) and reconstructions of the Nevel and Hazozra; “The House of the Levite and his Heritage” has been founded to make accessible to a wider public the fruits of his archaeo-musical and halakhic research in that domain.
