"I still love this Jewish music" | In Conversation with Yossi Desser

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

This video is a mix of singing and talking. For the songs only, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5u6pJZ5ftOKi6M Or click on the below timestamps. I added translations to the songs. 11:15 ‘Ani Mamin’ by a Modzitz Hasid who perished in the holocaust 32:55 ‘Yom Kippur’ by Reb Yom-Tov Ehrlich 49:51 Hasidic Niggun (Rizhuner) 1:00:45 ‘Belz’ or ‘Beltz’, a Yiddish classic song 1:09:59 ‘Sola Kokosh Mar’ from the Kalover Rebbe 1:21:31 ‘Luz a Shnei’ by Yossi Desser

[@BigHurt84]

Avremel Frieds Yiddish Gems from YT Ehrlich is my favorite Jewish album ever. We sing at least one song every shabbos.

[@sarahisatitagain]

OMG my grandmother used to sing this this and I never learned Yiddish. She wouldn't talk about the meaning (obviously it was something difficult for her but I was a kid I didn't understand) and I never learned the meaning, but I would cry so much listening to it... she would hug me. I remembered the lyrics when I was 20 something and trying to find out the jewish family that my mom left and things started to make sense... It clicked for me they were trying to cope...

[@lystein1070]

Beautiful video. Just to clarify for those who dont know: Ani Maamin is a prayer we say every day at the end of the morning prayers. Maimondes composed the 13 tenants of faith a Jew must have. The 12th out of the 13 is the belief in the coming of the Messiah, "and even if he will tarry, i will wait for him until he comes" this verse was sung and said continuously throughout all persecution since it was written and esp. In the holocaust, and today.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks for clarifying this. I think understanding the relevance of this verse is very important to appreciating its sung versions.

[@jillclark6076]

I absolutely loved this! What a charming young.man with a beautiful voice! I appreciate your bringing this to us. Those songs touched my heart this morning! ❤❤❤

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

❤️❤️❤️

[@merlinsclaw]

Frieda, what a wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing this conversation and for sharing Yossi's voice with us!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you so much - it was such a pleasure to collaborate with Yossi and share these storied songs.

[@amazingabby25]

I love Jewish music. Especially Yiddish songs. I have so many memories of my bubby singing old Yiddish songs to me. But I also love modern Hasidic music. I

[@JRock1900]

Yossi Desser sings beautifully with so much heart ♥️ Love it - thank you 🙏

[@Faigyfeig]

Haven’t heard him before his singing is giving me chills

[@UriSteiff]

Young secular Israeli Jew here. My debilitating medical condition has, for some reason, drawn me closer to Judaism. I had already been listening to Avraham Fried, Motty Steinmetz and others on repeat before watching the video. If find some comfort and solace in this music, maybe even sparks of holiness. Now Yom-Tov Ehrlich songs are officially part of my playlist.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Wishing you comfort and good things in your journey. Thanks for sharing. Yomtov ehrlich is special to many of us, perhaps he will have a revival for the younger generation!

[@UriSteiff]

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Thank you :) Btw, after watching one of your videos about Satmar, I tried to look up the religious-Zionist counter-arguments to the Three Oaths. I also took to r/Judaism on reddit, because as mentioned, I lack any formal Halakhic education. Some reasons were too hard for me to understand, as they require a deep halakhic understanding I utterly lack, and when I tried to listen to an hour of Israeli religious-Zionist rabbi Oury Cherki going over theh history of the discussion concerning the this midrash it was simply too advanced for me, but among the arguments I found and could understand were: 1. The Balfour Declaration (1917), the San Remo conference (1920) and the approval of the Partition Plan by the UN (1947) are seen as an approval by the nations for Jews to establish a state, and therefore the founding of Israel shouldn't be seen as "rebelling against the nations". 2. Throughout the years and especially during the Holocaust, the nations have violated their oath not to oppress the Jews too much, and therefore the whole "contract" is null and void. 3. The Three Oaths is an aggadic midrash, and therefore halakha is not derived from it, and Ramban for example counts conquering and settling the Land of Israel among the 613 mitzvahs. 4. The Aliyahs were incremental (rather than millions of Jews all coming at once), and separate waves of immigration aren't considered "going up in a wall". 5. The oaths and prohibitions mentioned in the midrash only apply to immigration from Babylon.

[@1BestCookie]

I want an updated version of all his songs that is recorded in a real recording studio because his music was recorded for old fashioned records

[@chatisawasteoftime]

@@UriSteiff If you talk to reform rabbis, they'll also give you a scholarly explanation of how it's okay to ignore the Torah.

[@Joyous765]

Thanks so much for this wonderful soul stirring, inspiring and poignant video with Yossi Desser. Yossi’s amazing voice and storytelling and his Yiddishe heart and soul come through so powerfully and also very sweetly in harmony with your beauty and your smile, Frieda. It takes me so warmly to my Babas and Zeidas and the precious roots, the passionate love and the sadness and awesome history that we share. ❤. With deep blessings, love and peace and happiness- to each and all…

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I so very much appreciate your comment. Warmth on these frigid winter days.

[@SIR46661]

Your channel just keeps getting better and more interesting !

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you so much for watching - it helps me keep making content!

[@MenachemWeinstein]

Huge fan of Yossi! So happy to see him on here.

[@yossidesser]

Thank you, Menachem (aka MunchMedia). The man behind my Chanukah music video. Wonderful singer and musician yourself.

[@joemoore9066]

What a great video. I really enjoyed the interview and especially the singing. Your video's are so special, Thank you again.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Joe, as always, you are wonderful and thank you!

[@MareRS357]

Beautiful voice and songs. ❤

[@marshallblr]

Amazing interview and podcast! so amazing! Thank you! Happy 8th Night of Chanukah! ; ),

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Same to you!

[@peterdalyy3542]

Oi freida your videos are just so good your spectrum is fantastic thank you once again for your hard work and professional presentation

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

oi Peter you are so kind!

[@JRock1900]

Frieda I hope (some time) in the near future we will see coming back to the Yiddish world (perhaps not chassidic,) but religious with a nice family where you can give them the warmth of these beautiful songs. I believe you will really enjoy it, looking forward seeing it with mine own eyes 🙏

[@susanjaneleitner7670]

Just beautiful! Thank you for sharing this gifted man! ❤️❤️❤️

[@lynnmcnair8885]

I have never heard any of this music before. I am fascinated by everything you post.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks so much for all the comments Lynn!

[@chasidance]

It is interesting that Belz is mentioned as a major source for chassidishe nigunim. Till about 50 years ago Belz nigunim was limited to singing some traditional shabbos nigunim at the tish. Today's Rebbe realized there was a need for new and more material and got some chassidim to start composing and putting out albums. He himself composed some nigunim too.

[@shaindystern1038]

Beautiful video wishing everyone a happy chanukah

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Shaindy dear, wishing you the same.

[@SwamiMommy]

Another incredible video! Yasher koiach! I still speak a bit of Hungarian and I understand most of it from my Hungarian parents Alehem Hashalom

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Shkoyach to you, happy chanukah!

[@miriambanda8427]

Yes. So do i

[@lyndaalterio1027]

What a beautiful voice! Thank you for this interview, Frieda. 😊😊😊

[@tishleigh7026]

What a delightful video ! So fun to hear all the music and hear all the interesting reflections and stories !❤ Love this it was a wonderful video and a wonderful guest singer ! Always a joy watching your videos Frieda!!! 😘 ❤

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you!!

[@jeanbellinger9770]

Absolutely wonderful show. Perfect. Thanks to you and your guest.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

thank you!!

[@debrapaulino918]

Had never heard or known the story of the song. Really wonderful to hear and know. Enjoyed interview. You listen well.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks for watching - I loved doing this in person interview, it's very rare for me, the music was also a joy.

[@debrapaulino918]

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I've watched him sing but not that song ❤️

[@HeidiHanson-c3h]

Thank you for the education Frieda. I enjoyed this interview as well as your other videos. Music brings people together in such an important way. I wish we could all coexist together as humans and there would be peace in our world.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Amen, may we one day!

[@ZippyGoldberg]

Yossy we love you! You make us proud! 💕

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Hello Yossi's family/friends? 😊

[@bonnigilley7245]

Beautiful!

[@rose2fame1]

Hi Freida and Yossi, this is really a nice video. Yossi has a beautiful voice. Bravo

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you - Yossi is wonderful

[@ceeceebeebee889]

I'm atheist and I've never been Jewish. I went to a holiday quartet concert a few weeks ago. Since it was holiday, the musicians wanted to play Hannukah music, but they said it was hard for them to find songs. They played Ma’oz Tzur, and joked about Adam Sandler's song. This interview made me want to tell them there is so much more out there! haha

[@BetsAnderson]

Thank you for sharing. I loved everything and learned so much and enjoyed it. May God bless you indeed!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️

[@chayastoll1046]

A gutte Voch!Terrific!!! Thank you so much!

[@Ch76452]

This was amazing, thank you .a Freilichen chanukah

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you for watching. Freilecha chanukah!

[@surikatz123]

Yossi, you sing with so much hartz❤. You are a very sensitive neshama.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Yes, such a beautiful voice.

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

This version of Belz, and sung with such feeling, no, I have never heard, only overly saccharine versions....thank you!

[@spelaresnik2646]

Great as always! ❤🤗

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Hi dear Spela. Thinking of you...

[@RKK-RKK]

You are amazing 😮You make me wordless,so interesting...there is something special on you also something important...

[@marthakreimer6895]

Lovely interview

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you! Yossi is a wonderful human being!

[@miriambanda8427]

As usual you came through with flying colors in this interview with yossi desser. Your interviews are informative and interesting. I like your style, asking the question, but no judgment. Keep it going. A freilichen chanukah!

[@moshegramovsky]

Wonderful and informative video. You have a fun, thoughtful, and intellectual style! I look forward to all your videos. Yossi, thank you for sharing your perspective and beautiful voice with us :)

[@jimdeane3667]

Oy, Freida! Listening to the Captain’s Kol Nidre and the tears are flowing. G-d bless you both!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I feel the same way about this very beautiful song.

[@Faigyfeig]

One of my favorites I played it to a dance in high school

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

I loved this. Thanks.

[@mo5ago1]

beautiful songs!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Here's the podcast version of this video. I'm trying to get better at updating long-form episodes in podcast versions. www.spreaker.com/episode/58002507

[@dotcastagno3629]

💙Excellent

[@artofnarure]

gr8 video!

[@Dev_KG]

Great episode! In Lubavitch we have an adapted to English version of Sola Kokosh Mar that is sung in Chabad Houses called "The Little Bird." The English lyrics really explain the concept of the yearning we feel for Eretz Yisroel. It's always beautiful but I remember the Shabbos after 10/7 my kids started to sing it, and I said please stop, I couldn't even hear it, thinking of all the Yidden we had lost and those in captivity, and how badly we just want to be in our nest of Yerushalayim, especially our hostages. 💔 Many Lubavitch niggunim were introduced each year by the Rebbe, and many little-known ones were recorded by elder Chassidim in 16 volumes called "Nichoach" which preserved niggunim that would have been completely lost after that generation. Also in around 1980 there was a tape that I had from Bobov boys choir that I can only describe as Bobov Goes Disco. It was wild and I've lost it and never seen it again. If anyone knows what I'm talking about PLEASE let me know.

[@yossidesser]

I didn’t know Chabad sings the english version of Szol a Kakas. Interesting!

[@tamarfischer283]

A little bird is crying. It wishes to return. The little bird is wounded. It cannot cry but yearn. It's captured by the vultures crying bitterly. When will come the Eagle and set the little bird free.

[@chasidance]

@@yossidesser they don't! "A little bird is crying" isn't a chabad song. MBD sings it the best of course.

[@Dev_KG]

@@chasidance I didn't say it's a Chabad song. I said we sing it. I never claimed it was ours.

[@bernardogrobeisenweingersz9768]

Great episode , I enjoy it very much , I could recommend you to listen to Dudu Fisher singing Belz, he also have other songs that I like. Unfortunately there are not to many Yiddish singers.

[@teemarie5478]

Love this, I don’t understand any of the music but it’s beautiful

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I tried my best to add subtitles!

[@yvonnetitus2]

I love learning the historical context of this genre of music. Yossi’s voice clearly emotes the meaning and the passion.

[@stephenfisher3721]

Yom Tov Ehrlich was not from Romania. He was born in Kozhan Gorodok and grew up in the nearby David Haradok (today in Belarus). He was born to a family of Karlin-Stoliner Hasidim. He survived the Holocaust in Samarkand. His sister, Rivka Kaluszyner wrote The Not Far Away Past (the English title) which tells how they survived the Holocaust.

[@yossidesser]

Thank you for the informative correction. My father told me he survived the war by serving as a musician in the army. It’s obviously more nuanced than that. I’ll check out that book recommendation.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Stephen, thanks so much for title. The last few videos have made it clear to me that I need to learn more about Yomtov Ehrlich, not just rumor and wiki bullet points. I will read the book. I'd love to do an interview with someone who was close to Reb Yomtov Ehrlich. Maybe a daughter of his?

[@stephenfisher3721]

​@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Dina Storch is the niece of Yom Tov Ehrlich. She is quoted as saying, "I had always been musical and played my guitar and accordion (given to me by my uncle, Reb Yom Tov Ehrlich, z"l)."

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Yes, I worked off her translation only made it closer to the original. I'm trying to figure out: did he have a guitar, yes or no? A ukele? An accordian?@@stephenfisher3721

[@Zelde-M]

I ordered the book. Thanks.

[@SignalHillHiker]

Love the discussion of borrowing, and how music moves. One of my fave Jewish-related examples is the Ladino music of Portugal and Spain. You can trace a direct line from it to modern Fado but, even more interestingly, when those Jews were expelled, quite a few made their way to the Ottoman Empire. One of the places where they had an especially large impact was Bosnia and Herzegovina. There's a traditional style of Bosnian Muslim folk music there called sevdah that basically started with the Ladino folk music brought by Jews, and expanded on their melodies. Interestingly, this is widely known and acknowledged there - usually the origins of such things get lost over time. Moj dilbere (My darling) is one example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gofRk5p5rM1mrM0

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I really enjoyed listening to Moj dilbere. Thanks so much for sharing all this.

[@Aly-mk1nw]

The song about the captain's Kol Nidre sounds like it refers to the time when the Russian Empire had control over the Pale of Settlement (the only place in the empire Jews were allowed to live) and specifically recruited Jewish to serve in the Zsar's army for many many years. Odessa was Romania at one point, it was also part of the Russian Empire, and is now a big port city in Ukraine. The Jewish men that were forcefully recruited were not allowed to practice. Which would explain why the old lady was still there but the men were not and the captain remembered Kol Nidre tunes from his childhood, but didn't know it was Kol Nidre.

[@yvonnetitus2]

Yes! Part 2 be coming!!

[@tamarfischer283]

The reason yom tov ehrlich is hard to understand is the Russian Yiddish but also his language was exquisite and sophisticated. He also knew a lot. Who understood " nisht beethoven, mozart, nisht wagner, nisht Bach" in satmar ? He would tell you the geography, in Uzbekistan "of die berg fun didzan bam grenitz fun indien un Afghanistan." I love the captain's kol nidre but I really missed the" fluff". You are telling the story but leaving out all the poetry, " es tzieht mir der hartz un es benkt sich aher" and "baim zait steht der tatteh, fun himmel arop gekummen kol nidrei zu herren" and it is purposely ambiguous whether we are talking about the captain's father or G-d. And my favorite " der schain fun projector es zucht oifen breg es zucht oich zewischen di stern..." I don't believe for a minute that this is a holocaust song. These are cantonist times, tsarist Russia, lost jews pulled away from their Judaism, lost in the Russian army, not fleeing for their lives. There is another wonderful one about a father of a communist leader who insists that his grandson have a Bris, so the communists abduct a moihel " ich vil em nischt, nisht halten,nischt kuchen afile nisht onkooken bis- men vet mech brengen an ehrlichen moihel oon Machen a bris"

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

You really get it. I grew up under the assumption that these sad songs were all holocaust songs. My mother woke at dawn to bake challahs, I often woke with her, and she'd listen to Yomtov Ehrlich. It just seemed to me that a lot of it was about the 'krig'. But you're so right. With regard to the line "Beethoven..." etc... it really surprised me when I first realized what he said. Some of these things ended up getting censored out in later covers.

[@chasidance]

The mohel story is a true story. I think a Rabbi Wilschansky had to do with it.

[@tamarfischer283]

@@chasidance really? I heard yakob story was also more or less true. Tzupzik sounds true. Would be so.good for someone to research the sources of all this material. I'd love to read that book

[@jww128]

at 1:20:20 the Chupa song was composed by a Yid in the town Bobov in Galicia. His name was Reb Izreal Mandelbaum. HY"D

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Never heard that before. That chuppah song is one of the most beautiful tunes.

[@reflectingqueen]

I can understand everything!! it is just like a german dialect.....

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I just met an ex-Amish person on a tour and we understood each other because they spoke shveytze Deutch.

[@mrsspeech]

5o Years ago in Chicago you knew that you could buy a beautiful diamond and a good price and know the vendor was honest if you dealt with the Jewish diamond dealers. I had great respect for them. We always went to Benjamin's in the city because the tailors there were Jewish and their work was unparalleled. Never be embarrassed at what your parents did because they were hard working and honest. Gentiles knew they were honest so doing business with them was easy.

[@mayerjotkowitz3109]

Loved it!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Hi Mayer, happy chanukah!

[@jww128]

Most Belzer Songs are post war from the 80's and 90's composed in Eretz Yisroel. In the old Heim they didnt sing much.

[@jktz122]

my father was a huge yom tov ehlich chusid we had a bunch of his cassettes.. yom tov ehrlich was a karliner chussid

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thanks for watching this. I really want to do more videos on yomtov ehrlich and I hope there’s a bit of an interest.

[@almedarob]

Frieda you are fantastic such great interview (you will be the next Barbara Walters)

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Aww, I don’t think I’m so good, I fumble, but I enjoy interviewing the most.

[@TylerBerge22]

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and had the pleasure of discovering Yossi’s remarkable talent. Regarding the term “farshikt” (פארשיקט) in the context of the Jewish plight in Russia, it typically refers to Jews being sent to the gulags in Siberia, a fate shared by many Jewish influencers-whether religious or secular, including rabbis, kosher slaughters, and Jewish artists and writers during the communist era. I’d like to point out that Krakow and Odessa are both sizable cities and far from the image of a shtetl. Allow me to address the poignant moment in the episode where you discussed your family’s fervent desire for you to return to religious practices, it was emotional but painful to watch. Do to the passage of years, I had anticipated a softening of this issue. However, it seems your dedication to your work and positive attitude to the community continue to sustain their hopes. I sincerely hope you navigate this matter with resilience and a positive outlook. In response to your comment, @tamarfischer, I initially shared similar concerns regarding the Satmar rebbe’s perspective on attributing the Holocaust to Zionism. However, through some research and reflection, I gained a more nuanced understanding, although the topic remains sensitive. I’d maybe share with you my thoughts on this via email when time permits, but I first wanna hear what David Bailey has to say. Thanks again for your great content!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Thank you so much for such a personal and beautiful comment. I'm so touched by it, I'm finding myself welling up. I look forward to reading your comment on my anti-zionism post although I hope to do more coverage of the issue because I feel like we just touched the tip of the iceburg.

[@TylerBerge22]

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I very much appreciate your positive response! I initially had reservations about getting too personal, but your feedback is reassuring. I eagerly anticipate more content on the anti-zionism issue, as well as the opportunity to share my thoughts.

[@3chars]

Is it true that Belz is releasing a new album with boys choir in time for x-mas I think it’s called Yingle Belz

[@joni77933]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@josephdavidlandau]

There's a version of Belz on youtube of an uncreddited singer where he sings. "יעדן שבת פֿלעג איך לױפֿן דאָרט מיט דעם חמוש גלייך זיצן אונטער דעם קליינעם ביימעלע לערנען ביי דעם טייך" If the video can be trusted it says it's from 1928. So I wonder what the original lyrics of the song were. The secular varfn stayndelekh or frumer lernen khimish?

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Can you link it?

[@josephdavidlandau]

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn here it is. I’m not sure who the singer is but I think maybe Seymour Rechtzeit and I would guess from the quality it’s recorded later than the video thinks maybe the 40s? kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3-uf6ymfZZ9q9Esi=sD56d7kZExFRmQuE

[@lawrencemielnicki5643]

Frieda, hearing the music and the story I would classify this music as “Yiddish Blues.” Am I off base? Also thank you for the translation.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

It does feel that way to me! But I'm not an expert in what technically can be called blues.

[@lawrencemielnicki5643]

⁠@@FriedaVizelBrooklynMe either. There just seems to be many cross cultural influences that are not evident at the surface. You should get your Ph.D. In sociology. You have so much material for a dissertation.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

@@lawrencemielnicki5643 Yeah I always thought I'd do a phd in sociology. It's probably the dream. We'll see if it ever happens.

[@joemoore9066]

Thanks!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Joe you are so very generous, thank you so much. 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@joemoore9066]

Frieda, it is just my small way of encouraging you to keep up the wonderful and entertaining videos. Your videos have made me realize what is missing in my Jewishness. Just acknowledging that I am a Jew, is huge. Thank you for that !!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

@@joemoore9066 I'm so touched by this. 💞

[@rositahuff4858]

…kol nidrei….a prison guard gave a Jewish inmate a violin and made him play….he had to play it 3 times because it was done so beautifully…in the end the guard and all the inmates were in tears….they say it happen in Auschwitz….

[@way2wayway2way19]

Reallly beautiful. You should do an episode on Shlomo Carlabach impact on the Jewish world

[@yossidesser]

Indeed! I did get to see the “Soul Doctor” on broadway years ago that his daughter Nashama produced about the life of her father R’Shlomo Carlibach. His songs are a big part of my music repertoire at gigs.

[@ghislaine412]

Beautifull Podcast, Both of You. Zusha have a night Chanukka song, check it out.

[@Zelde-M]

אַ ווונדערלעך מוזיקאַליש פּראָגראַם! טשיקאַווע, אינפאָרמיטיװ מיט שיינע שמועס. די מוזיק איז געשמאַק!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

יא די ניגונים זענען אזוי ווארעם און די שמיעס מיט יוסי געשמאק.

[@Zelde-M]

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn איך בין מסכים

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

@@Zelde-M I just read your email. You asked "where were you? It looked like you were in a cave with two potted plants". I laughed so hard. It was a studio. The setup was very weird.

[@enrueshe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGm8pnqMfrBgmpo The other version of the song about the captain. Wonder what came first.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Wait, I just listened to it. I don't understand Russian. It didn't sound like the same tune. Was it supposed to be?

[@yid613]

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I think @enrueshe is confusing it with this song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWqomWuiqcupnqs And yes, the tune is the same as "Captain's Kol Nidre."

[@1BestCookie]

I always thaught the Kal Nidrah story had to do with the tzar's laws that constripated young men into the army. And I associate it also with the Maranos who had to live hidden Jewish lives and forgot there jewish religion

[@kp8740]

Not that I know a lot of Jewish music, but this song really gets into my soul. I “sing” along in my own version of the words, tap my feet and disappear into the music. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZy5ioJvpK5rrMU

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Yes, it’s a wonderful wonderful song. I included it in my video about Hasidic music.

[@Faigyfeig]

Oddesa is in Ukraine and it was the communists who took the Baal tefillahs most likely

[@Faigyfeig]

Also clearly he came from a religious background as the song says and since he was able to daven

[@yossidesser]

Good observation! Thank you for clearing that up!

[@MarkMerkesh]

Odessa was Russian all the time before

[@ariebrons7976]

Happy Hannukah evereyone, Here's the alphabet song in Greek. I find it works well with the tune of Heder katan (Oifn Pripetsik) Please note that ΘΕΟΥ ΓΑΡ Ε litteraly means Hey is Hashem. The Hellenes where suppsed to be Atheist right? Το Αλφα Βητα Γαμμα δελτα, Θεου γαρ Ε και τον Ζητα Ητα Θητα, το Ιωτα Καππα Λαμβδα Μυ Νυ το Ξει, Ομικρον το Πει, Ρο το Σιγμα Ταυ, και τε τον Υ παρρον το Φει, Χει τε το Ψει εις το Ωμεγα. To Alfa, Vēta, Gramma, Delta, Theou gar E kai ton Zēta, Ēta Theta, to Iōta Kappa Lamda Mü Nü to Xi (Ksi), Omicron to Pei, Ro to Sigma Tau kai te ton U parron to Fei, Khi the to Psi eis to Ōmega A good guide for pronounceing this is the Restored Lucian Pronounciation. You can find it on KZbin at Polymathy.

[@tamarfischer283]

The notion that satmar's anti zionism is pro palestinian is so ignorant, as to be ludicrous. First off, ALL religious sects were against secular zionism, which was anti religious at its core. The belief was to replace religion with nationalism, and for Jews to drop all their "outdated beliefs" (that had allowed them to survive- no other ancient jewish movements did) and become " a nation like other nations" The difference was their ideas regarding to what extent zionism could be combined with religious life. That went from the religious zionists, who thought if they took on zionism and kept religion, it would be the beginning of the messianic age (which G-d would complete by sending moschiach) to the satmar etc.. who thought zionism was a scourge and should be avoided at all cost. The others, though abhorring a secular state thought more could be accomplished by working with it than against it. None of these groups supported the palestinian question, which had NOTHING to do with zionism. Anti semites belonged to the old world. The question of how to deal with them came later and was not a religious question at all. The satmar rebbe is known to have cried at the losses of Israeli soldiers. They were jiddishe kinder. One of the things that made rabeini yoel so anxious about zionism is that he foresaw that it would become the focus on anti semitism and cause much tragedy (!) I well remember spending a shabbes with the satmar rebbe in Switzerland during one of the wars in Israel some years ago. The MINUTE shabbes was over the rebbe went over to the more " modern" jews and asked them what was going on in Israel. I have satmar relatives and EVERYONE is devastated by what is going on in Israel today (who they blame is another question). But please. The notion that chassidisc jews identify in any way with these horrible traitors at palestinian rallies is completely untrue. That's like jews for Hitler (and yes, there were some of those too).

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Great comment, but wait, you spent a shabbes with Satmar Rebbe in Switzerland? What was he like? I just did an interview with David Biale about the history of religious antizionism (shoudl publish in a few days) and the way he described the Satmar Rebbe's ideology of blaming the holocaust on Zionism left me feeling so uneasy, but also that maybe we're not getting to understand the full picture.

[@mo5ago1]

shmily unger made a cute chanuka song

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

I included it in my top 16 music videos video. It's cute.

[@mo5ago1]

would be amazing to listen to these songs while on plant medicine. very spiritual.....galus galus vee veit bistee......

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

ha ha, "plant medicine"

[@yossidesser]

With a לולקע in one hand and Old Williamsburg in the other. Balanced diet!

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

@@yossidesser 😂😂

[@tamarfischer283]

Tvies - harvests.

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Tamar, what's this in reference to?

[@tamarfischer283]

The singer talking about rozinkes un mandlen translated alle tvies as " all the trades" but tvi"e is harvest. So the line reads- you'll be a salesman of all kinds of produce

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

@@tamarfischer283 ah! Thanks!

[@chaimyidel2670]

You make this videos for us or for them?

[@FriedaVizelBrooklyn]

Who is us and who is them?