TTT :: Shehecheyonu • Amit Listvand

Now, we know about the dangers of blaming the victim. A delicate child cannot be expected to analyze, decide and act in the same way that a thoughtful adult can. Can young and vulnerable Amit be blamed for the hideous screeching he was forced to perform for his handlers? *shudder*

Monday Matchup :: Vha'arev Na • Berry Weber/MBD

"Generations", from SethKayeBlog.com

Berry Weber

MBD. I used to think this was the best song that MBD ever recorded. Now I just think it is spectacular. From The Double Album, Disc 2.

The Rebbe of Lublin • Journeys II

An income lesson,
From the soul of Moshe Yess,
Who understood things.

DISCLAIMER: This song is not about the Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz pictured, who is a mechanech from Monsey, New York. It is about his probable namesake, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz, "The Chozeh", of Lublin, Poland.

NEW! Ker a Velt • 8th Day

Translated: Those crazy enough to think they can improve the world are the ones who do. So if you're crazy and you know it, just change the world.



This track was pre-released some months ago to benefit a good cause.

It is imperative to remind oneself of the source and implications of the phrase.  Ker a Velt heint!

One of the most famous and emotional moments remembered since the Rebbe became Rebbe on 10 Shvat in 1951.

Let's each do one extra "crazy" action by nightfall that shifts the world a tiny bit closer to the right spot. This Shabbos is the 53rd anniversary of Yud Shvat.

TTT :: Be a Mentch

Yerachmiel Begun 
and the miami boys choir

Two extra points if you can place the source of this picture. Use the commenting feature to comment.

Monday Matchup :: Der Rebbe Zol Gezunt Zein

HT: Yitz

Lecha Dodi • Yisroel Werdyger

If his smile (left) didn't convince you, be warmed by that of the great Sruly Meyer (center). Good shabbos!

This song and others are playing LIVE NOW on
the great Shir Shel Shabbos!

How great!

NEW! Never Afraid • 8th Day

We're well acquainted with the 8th Day song-mushing formula: Chassidishe Vort, check, good rhyme and rhythm, check, farbrengen explanation, nor vos?.

So, from their minutes-ago-released recording "Hooleh", here is my "let me hear that again" selection. Full review to maybe come.



ROSH CHODESH BONUS!
We're streaming a short collection of Hallel Hits right here.

TTT :: Dundai Hey! • Miami Boys Choir

Monday Matchup :: What It's All About • Morah Music

Is THIS what it's all about?

Or THIS?

According to the Urban Dictionary: Hokey Pokey is "a satanic ritual which requires one to put the right foot in and then the right foot out.Put the right foor in and shake it all about. Do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around. And that's what it all about."

**Kol Isha**

Not so simple now, is it?

Gesher Tzar • Yosef Karduner

That this whole world is a narrow bridge is well-documented. The point of this information though, "the underlying principle—the main thing—is that there should not be any fear at all..."

Why does everybody make so much fun of me? • Marvelous Midos Machine

TTT :: Olam Haba? • Country Yossi

From his 2010 album "Ride Again"—20 years in the making—comes this piece of news:

You won't have a place in Olam Haba. They won't let you in.

Monday Matchup ::Me & You (& You & Me) • Lipa/Fried

In "Yener" (A Poshiter Yid), Lipa Schmeltzer asks people to focus less on others as a means of defining themselves.

In "Ich Bin Ich" (Ah Mechayeh!), Avraham Fried explains the words of the Heiliger Kotzker, "If I am me because you are you, and you are you because I am me, I am not and neither are you."

Pe'ero Alai • Shlomo Simcha (Carlebach)

From the "Shir Hakavod"--An'im Zemiros--recited responsively by Ashkenaz congregations after Shabbos davening:

פארו עלי ופארי עליו, וקרוב אלי בקראי אליו

His beauty is on me and my beauty is on Him

[alt., He adorns Himself for me and I adorn myself for Him];
He is close to me when I call

HENCE, we are alive and playing that ShirShelShabbos!

Good Shabbos, friend.