Omar R' Akiva - MBD - Kulam Ahuvim

Apropos of the week before Lag b'Omer.

I've always liked the idea that:
מה מקוה מטהר את הטמאים, אף הקדוש ברוך הוא מטהר את ישראל.
Beyond the analogy, consider that the tahara of mikva is by and for הקב"ה. In effect, Just as a mikva is one way that Hashem can "purify" someone, He may also choose to purify ישראל Himself.

Jump into His mikva, baby!

Shabbos Koidesh - Avraham Fried - Yiddish Gems I

It wouldn't hurt him to re-record this, but the point remains:
!יעדער איינער וויל זיין הייליג אין דעם שבת קודש

Good Shabbos!

National Day of Rachem 2010

Ben Zion Solomon and Sons - Give Me Harmony


UPDATE: I mistakenly uploaded "Rachem al Tzion" from D'veykus 6 instead of "Rachem Bechasdecha" from 5. This is the corrected track (followed by the "mistake"):

D'veykus - Vol. 5


D'Veykus - Vol 5 6 (Rachem al Tzion)


Lev Tahor (A Capella)


"The" MBD Rachem - (Just One Shabbos version)


MBD and Friends (with Avraham Fried)


MBD - Moshiach Is Coming Soon


Shlomo Carlebach - Rachem (Have Mercy) - At the Village Gate


Tzlil V'Zemer - Vol. 1

Tax Man - Beatles

In honor of April 15.

Gut Shabbos - Lev Tahor 4

National Day of Mimkomcha 2010

ממקומך מלכינו תופיע – From Your place, our King, reveal Yourself and reign over us, for we wait for You. When will You reign in Zion? Let it be soon in our days, [and may it last] forever and ever. May You dwell and be exalted and hallowed within Jerusalem Your city for all generations and to all eternity. May our eyes behold Your kingship as it is said in the songs to Your majesty by David, Your righteous anointed: ימלך ה' לעולם, אלקיך ציון לדור ודור, הללו'ה!

Abie Rotenberg - Lev v'Nefesh I


Shlomo Carlebach - Hitoriri version (also on others)


MBD - HASC version (also on Solid MBD)


Yeedle - Shiru Lamelech


Yaakov Shwekey - Ad Bli Dai


Shlomo Simcha - Simchas Yom Tov*


D'veykus - Dov Levine & Rivie Schwebel*


Mendy Wald - LeChaim


*6/29/11 - CORRECTION: Thanks Moishe S. for noting that the previously labeled "Shlomo Simcha" was actually a D'veykus of some sort; Dov Levine, Rivie Schwebel and Co. Shlomo Simcha has been added...

Wavin' Flag - Young Canadian Artists for Haiti.

The idea is to take Young Canadian Artists and donate them to Haiti. A secondary objective is to understand how > my getting older > might make me stronger > making me "Freedom" > just like a Wavin' Flag. (Then it goes back! Very mysterious.)

If you like choruses, love collaborative anthems and adore execution that is fun and not incredibly self-righteous, like this. It is not We Are the World - 25, because it is fun and not incredibly self-righteous.

There is a video, à la We Are the World, which can be found on Youtube, but because of your lame efforts to help, I cannot be found on Youtube. Lament, lament Children of Zion; rend your clothes in mourning. Lift your arms in prayer, let your eyes rain tears, beseech the Heavens that they may comfort you, firebomb Ber's desk. - Me in my Book

Glass Harp

HT: Gruntig

Taamu Ureu - Verdict?

Is it time yet for a verdict on Ta'amu? Is it a "Hit"?

Personally, I'm filing it under easy listening.

Thoughts?

Black Wolf - Shlomo Carlebach

Which is to say: I must have forgotten to post it yesterday and last week and a month ago and before two years, but all is not lost.

Moshiach Yavo - Yosef Karduner

The Incredible Edible Niggun.

Adir Ayom - Yosef Karduner

"Ha-a-she-em eh-h-ye oy-zech, eh-ye oy-zech lee..."

I've always believed that MBD had Yeedle sing first verses on some songs so that when he cut in, the song would sound so many bajillions of times more better than if it was just a bajillion times very good to begin with. See also, Karduner, Adir Ayom, 1:01. (Except this Yeedle has a charm all his own.)

SpiderMentch

Mi Chamocha - Yehuda!

Yehuda! was way before his time. That is to say, he arrived on the Jewish music scene very shortly after his "style" gained popularity in the popular pop-culture pop-houses. He writes, plays, arranges, records and harmonizes his own stuff. It would take me too long to explain exactly why all this makes him one of the stars of Jewish music when he is so obviously not at all even near to being close to said stardom either in talent or recognition.



But that's the thing: he is.

Building the Mikdosh - Chayolim Ensemble

By Zalmy Negin. An after-school elective that will do good things for sure! הצלחה רבה!