Audio: Reb Yom Tov Ehrlich Z''l Sings "Yakob"

[@everanon1675]

To Reporter: This song was composed for and sung at the wedding of Yakob in the mid-40s in France by R' Yomtov Ehrlich.

[@moshebiderman1750]

He sounds like a happy person

[@stifft50]

This Yaakov ז"ל survived and came to America, when I was in the "Mir" in Israel someone pointed to me a Chassidisher Bocher learning and told me that he's Yakobs Grandson! In an interview Avrohom Fried said that he met Yacobs grandchild

[@iznet4368]

אמת ויציב

[@sciencefish111]

Thank you so much for the translation, can you post the Yiddish as well?

[@michaelpam5904]

Inaccurate transalation

[@aniodchai]

A nice song, but a very strange story. There are a tractor and at the same time some chieftain, an owner of may be a hundred cows, many oxes etc. A tractor in a Tajik village - it could have been possible only in Soviet time, but neither chieftains nor private owners of cow or ox herds could have existed at the same time. There were kolkhoses and party and soviet functionaries. And it is highly improbable, that a soviet bigwig wanted a poor Jewish boy as a son-in-law for his daughter.

[@DiegoVaz3]

Should I tell my Uzbek and Tajik coworkers what Yomtov Ehrlich though of them? And how could they intoxicate him with wine if they themselves were Muslim and did not use the wine?

[@DiegoVaz3]

@db frdmn I speak enough Yiddish to understand the original.

[@j.e.6901]

@@DiegoVaz3 he’s talking about a Jew from Uzbekistan….

[@DiegoVaz3]

@@j.e.6901 No he's not. He's talking about a Polish refugee in Uzbekistan akin to himself. The lad learned in the Yeshivoh before WWII this being the reason for his memories coming up.

[@Reporterreporter770]

such a sad story the Bochur did not know she was Jewish and he stayed a bochure all his life, Hashem likes Logic Rabbinic traditions stipulated a divinely predetermined time for the messiah’s coming even if Jews were not sufficiently meritorious. It was held that attempts to force the hand of God by initiating a messianic era before its time would result in deferring the appointed date. Thus, medieval Jews regarded the active cultivation of messianism as, paradoxically, delaying it, whereas fervent but “passive” waiting was felt to be the most effective means of bringing about the redemption. This paradox lies at the heart both of many medieval messianic conflicts and of modern historiographic characterizations of traditional messianism-and even underlies the traditionalist stance toward Zionism.

[@chabadvideos]

Yehuda/Reporter, 1st of all who says she was Jewish? 2nd Why do you make up lies that he ( Yaakov Patash z'l )stayed a bochur all his life when this song was actually a wedding present to him from his friend Reb Yom Tov Ehrlich Z''l (see comment number 8 here: crownheights.info/videos/404588/audio-reb-yom-tov-ehrlich-sings-yaakov/ )

[@stifft50]

FYI he married, came to America and had kids