Be Prepared • Y-Studs (Lion King)

Peretz reminded me that we are now living within the three weeks between listening to lively music and listening to more lively music. Enjoy this acapella track.

The Revelation Will Not Be Televised • Stereo Sinai

Stereo Sinai is a husband and wife band from Chicago that rocks.

HT:MM

Hazkiri • MBD & Shira

All for 1:34 "Sheloi soivad, sheloi soivad she'eiris yaakov!"

Hashem's the World • Avraham Fried

Good Shabbos!

Matisyahu's Interview with Aish

[bad joke was here. deleted]

Aaaaaanyway, I found BloginDM yesterday after Googling "Yud Beis Tammuz Niggun". Our blog come up right up top, after Chabad.org. Inadvertent SEO. So, BloginDM came up as well, having graciously linked to us here! And BloginDM also linked to this interview. And the interview links to FOUR new Matisyahu tracks. And now they are yours.

Exclusive 4-song preview

Actually, I have been to BloginDM in the past, but have never really spent the time to explore, see and enjoy. Kind of the way one can be at a Shabbos table together but only meet on that first date. But first dates are often memorable for all the wrong reasons and this was enjoyable.

"ONE" • Sarah Dukes

From Sarah Dukes, the composer:

This song is about one boy, a boy whom we all loved but never met. It is about the effect that this one, young, innocent child had on the entire world: he united a nation. He proved that we can work together as one, and showed us that we ARE one. He taught us that we can have pure, baseless love- even towards someone we have never met. He taught us the power of one: of one individual, of one people, of one heart.

His name was Leiby.

Let's continue to live Leiby's lesson. Let's be there to help one man, one woman, one child one soul. Let's have baseless love towards a complete stranger.

We can do it. Leiby showed us that we can.

Tzama Nafshi • Andy Statman

mellow, mindful, magnificent.

National Day of Yud Beis Tammuz

Three renditions of the redemptive tune of 12 Tammuz. So, is 12 Tammuz redemptive in fact or was it redemptive in history? It is a question of how imprisoned we feel today by the forces mocking our Rebbes' activity; and how free we remember to be to drive on anyway.


Dovid Horowitz • Masores Hanigunim - attributed to R' Aharon Charitonow


Yair Kalev • The Soul's Essence II


Moshe Laufer • Songs of the Lubavitcher Chassidim

Nekuda Tova • Shuli Rand

Half of that whole Ushpizin incident. I say incident because art, it seems to me, is becoming more incidental every hour. If you'll remember the classics we were told about and re-discovered, you'll remember how they first qualified as exceptional before going platinum. Then they went multi, then they went viral and it seems viral got sick and died. 


Not that there's anything wrong with that.


Good shabbos!
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Shared with me some whiles back. Still as good a point as ever.
HT:CR

נקודה טובה
שולי רנד ואהוד בנאי
מילים ולחן: שולי רנד


אחות קטנה, נפש תאומה
חכי עוד רגע עוד מעט
יש שכר לפעולתך
הנה הוא קם ואליך הולך
חכי עוד רגע כי רק את

גם אני איתך בוכה
וכמוך מצפה
אז חכי עוד רגע עוד מעט
הנה הוא בא מנחמך
שמעי איך הוא אליך הולך
חכי עוד רגע כי רק את

תמיד ידעת למצוא בי
עוד קצת אור שממני נעלם
נקודה טובה ועוד נקודה טובה
ועוד מעט ואין רשע
התבוננת על מקומו ואיננו

הן תמיד השכלת לשמוע
את השיר שלנו שכמעט נדם
נקודה טובה ועוד נקודה טובה
ועוד מעט והנה הוא בא
התבוננת על מקומו
והננו

אחות קטנה, עלי בכי אמונה
חכי עוד רגע עוד מעט
הנה הוא בא מנחמך
הטהרי השמיעי קולך
פתחי עינייך
לאט

Im Ata Maamin • Yehuda Green

REVIEWS on the Recording
Peretz: "I'm on vacation through July 6th."
Shmuel: "Listening with half an ear. Very listenable."
Avi: "Mellow and very listenable. Having never met or seen this man in person, I do wonder if he 'gets' the Chassidic background to the Holy Brother bidness, or it's just a distilled Shlomo Carlebach."





Viha'ikar: Im ata maamin she'efshar likalkel—if you really believe you are capable of destroying—ta'amin she'efshar litaken—trust me, you can repair. —R' Nachman of Breslov

REVIEW LOADING Yehuda Green • Peace in My Heart

The editors of SSY are currently listening to the new recording and will get back to y'all.
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UPDATE: Ber says this is not so new; it is from March. Nunu.

Simchat Torah • Midbar Band

Not pop.




Their MySpace page.

STOP! • Ohad! (Or: Stop Ohad!)

Ha! That's just about what I was looking for. Thanks, Yammo.

I want pop. Who has pop?

A pop song. A badly-conceived, bizarrely-lyriced, bouncing-beated pop song. Do you have one?

Shomrei Mitzvosecha • MBD & Shira

Dear People of Faith and Fed-upness, שיחי'

It is Shabbos Parshas Korach and it is Gimmel Tammuz.

Korach challenged Moshe after the Meraglim were dismissed; after they were told: "No staying in this Torah-study bliss of a desert—time to go into action-heavy Israel." Korach said: I get why you Rebbes are greater than us Chassidim in learning and understanding and kavana and perception... but what advantage do you have in Eretz Yisroel? Why are you better at doing mitzvos; at serving Hashem through action? Tefillin is Tefillin for everyone equally! Tefilla is tefilla for us all!

What did Moshe answer? See sicha Parshas Korach, Likkutei Sichos Vol. II