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Carry On (Lipa)
In Parshas Vayishlach, Yaakov Avinu shows us exactly how to deal with challenges: wrestle with it, refuse to let it go until it blesses you – until you emerge stronger, better and wiser than before. Remember, we’re called Bnei Yisroel for a reason.
Esa Einai with Simcha Sussman of Shalsheles
EPISODE SIX Song: Esa Einai 🎶Artist: Shalsheles 🎤Composer: Yitzchok Rosenthal ✍🏻 Talk about the story behind a song! The story of this classic is definitely a must listen. Simcha Sussman, one of the leading members of the famous group Shalsheles, takes us behind the...
Shalom Aleichem (MBD)
Why do we bid such a fast farewell to these friendly malachim. After all, they just arrived, not to mention have just finished bestowing blessings onto our homes! I mean, if the malachim want to stay, would we really have a problem with that? Wouldn’t we prefer that they stick around, or at least stay as long as they’d like? Why, after just welcoming in, would we proceed to show them the proverbial door?
Tatty My King with Dovid Edell & Aryeh Kunstler
EPISODE FIVE Song: Tatty My King 🎶Artist: Waterbery Yeshiva 🎤Composer: Dovid Edell ✍🏻Producer: Aryeh Kunstler ⚙️ Amongst all the beautiful and inspiring songs to come out of the Waterbury Yeshiva over the last two decades, Tatty My King may be the crown jewel....
Modeh Ani (Regesh)
The essence of a Yid and his connection to his Creator is dependent on this midah of hakaras hatov. True hakaras hatov is recognition of the One and only Source of Goodness – which is Hashem. The more a person sees Hashem in his life, the more appreciation he will feel.
Shabbos Hayom LaHashem with Baruch Levine
EPISODE FOUR Song: Shabbos Hayom LaHashem 🎶Artist: Shloime Gertner 🎤Composer: Baruch Levine ✍🏻 If ever a song to get your Shabbos juices flowing, this is it. Such a heartfelt niggun that connects the power of Shabbos with the future, when iy"H the Beis Hamikdash will...
Aishes Chayil (New York)
The Midrash Tanchuma (Chayei Sarah 4:1) writes that the hesped that Avraham Avinu said on that day was the very song that we sing every Friday night. Within the mystical phrases that comprise Eishes Chayil (Mishlei 31:10-31), Sarah Imeinu is eulogized by her husband and idealized by Chazal as the model Jewish woman.
Yedid Nefesh with Abie Rotenberg
EPISODE THREE Song: Yedid Nefesh 🎶Artist: Aish 🎤Composer: Abie Rotenberg ✍🏻 As one of the greatest composers of Jewish music, Abie Rotenberg has a knack for writing songs that everyone connects to. ‘Yedid Nefesh’ is definitely one of those songs, as it is sung in so...
🕯 R’ Ben Zion Shenker z’l – 19th of Cheshvan
To master the art of musical composition requires innate skills. To translate one’s emotion musically, to create beautifully expressive music, one must truly have lyrical genius. But to develop a majestic melody that radiates with sparkling finesse and that complements the accompanying lyrics, requires the insight and talents of an almost Davidic nature…
Magen Avos (Shalsheles)
In a world where change has become a constant phenomenon, and opinions become obsolete almost more quickly than they come into style, Magen Avos is a perfect example of the fact that Chazal’s wisdom is timeless and eternal, relevant in all times and places, giving the Jewish people a stability that every individual, and all the other nations so desperately crave.