I find it to be one of life’s oddities that we don’t ever feel the need to hear how important achdus is, and yet….. we most definitely need to hear how important achdus is.
To Love A Fellow Jew – 1982 (Tzlil V’Zemer)
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Behind the Notes
Listen. Connect. Reflect. Repeat.
Ilan Ilan (Aish)
These eternal words spoken in ancient Babylonia waited nearly 1,650 years in order to find their, now, eternal tune.
Bo Eshbos (Pirchei)
We possess the most powerful entity in the world; a strength like no other, a gift that is passed from generation to generation with pride since the beginning of time. We have, in a word: Tradition.
Adon Olam (Y’DID Singers)
When we say Adon Olam, we are reminded that we are not in control but that Hashem is in charge. He takes care of our every need with perfect precision – more perfect than we can possibly imagine. Almost makes you want to sing, doesn’t it…
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.
Al Hanisim – 1972 (Shivat Zion)
There’s latkes, dreidels, sufganiyot and Dov Frimer’s Al Hanisim.
Katonti (Yonatan Razel)
These words resonate in all of us, not just in me I’m sure, but has expressed the feeling that has accompanied me all week and will accompany me yet, as I continue on this magnificent musical journey.
Odcha – 1971 (Camp Kol-Ree-Nah)
I believe that Rav Hertzel Schechter, zt’l personified this vital lesson. He taught us all through his songs that nothing is “owed,” but rather, everything is “עוד.”
🕯 Rav Kalonymus Kalman Shapira zt’l, The Piaseczner Rebbe (1889-1943) – 4th of Cheshvan
While the man was bent and broken from the horrors he had witnessed and survived, in his mind remained the vibrant glow of his Rebbe’s countenance and the everlasting lesson he imparted; That the greatest thing you can do in the world is to do someone else a favor.
The Man From Vilna (Journeys)
He had witnessed a world that had gone so wrong, but from that point forward, he spent his life planting the seeds for a world that would exist long after he was gone. To Rabbi Goldman, it was always about our future.