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L’maan Yirbu – 1970 (The Messengers)
Even after Stalin’s death in 1953, the policy of Jewish persecution continued, and it became clear to the rest of the Jewish world that the Soviet Jewish community was suffering a slow death of assimilation.
Shalom Aleichem (Ruach)
Once the sun dips beneath the trees, the usual city noises are increasingly muted and are replaced with a certain calm and tranquility. The wind starts to whistle to a different tune and the birds begin to sing a slightly different song. Nature itself looks and sounds different the minute the Shabbos Queen arrives.
Shalom Aleichem (Regesh)
This classic was composed by R' Shmuel Brazil on the Regesh Vol. 3 Shabbos album. It might possibly be the most sung Shabbos song in the world. Legend has it that after the release of this album, Shlomo Carlebach reached out to R' Brazil to thank him for stealing a...
L’chu Vanim (London)
Moshe Rabbeinu wondered why the Jews had to suffer over a century of avodas perech, inhumane servitude, and near spiritual annihilation here in Mitzrayim – and to what end does a Jew find himself in any future golus for that matter.
Yisimcha (Avraham Fried)
In Jewish households around the globe, many have the custom of bentching their children on leil Shabbos – giving brachos to our precious girls and boys as Shabbos enters the world.
Yisgaber K’ari (The Diaspora Yeshiva Band)
The sun is rising, the birds are chirping; it’s a brand new day! A day filled with opportunity and excitement! Sure, it’s warmer under the covers… and I could always catch a later minyan…
Shir Hama’alos 121 ~ Hashem (Miami)
When we need inspiration, we turn to the words of Tehillim, and when we need that soul-stirring song to help us sing along, we turn to tunes of Yerachmiel Begun.
Yevanim (R’ Shmuel Brazil)
This song commemorates our victory, one of Kedusha over Tumah, of the sacred over that which is profane.
Al Hanisim – 1972 (Shivat Zion)
There’s latkes, dreidels, sufganiyot and Dov Frimer’s Al Hanisim.
Es Achai (MBD)
Does the Torah record every conversation that ever took place? Surely our Biblical ancestors spoke more than what is written in the Torah, so what is the Torah teaching us by describing this brief interaction that Yosef had while on his way to find his brothers?