Monday Matchup :: Borchi Nafshi • Shlomo/Zohar

Shlomo Carlebach:




Zohar:




BONUS: Simply Tsfat, instrumental on Zohar version:

Od Yishoma • Shlomo Carlebach

Do you know what keeps us going? One little prophecy! Ooooone little prophecy... Oooood Yiiishooomaaaa....

Gevald'she Brider! • Sung by Shlomo Carlebach

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.

Days Are Coming • Shlomo Simcha

Several of the cantorial blockbusters from R' Shlomo Carlebach were not mainstreamed by him but by his young friend and admirer, R' Shlomo Simcha Sufrin. Included in the several: Keser Yitnu Lecha and Moshe v'aharon.

Last year, Shlomo Simcha teamed up with the Nafshenu Orchestra for a wedding-style-album* of all Carlebach songs. Typically a recipe for mediocrity, this formula works very, very well, when the "wedding singer" happens to be Shlomo Simcha, and the "wedding" is Shlomo Carlebach.

My so far favorite. Hinei Yamim Ba'im:

*This is when a collection of well-known songs are recorded with over-the-top arrangements by one of the popular wedding orchestras, usually as a means of promoting said orchestra to girls' in high school productions and middle-aged men in Kosher Gyms.

Mimkomcha (Carlebach) • Daniel Ahaviel & His Heavenly Violin

LIVE. RIGHT. NOW!

Monday Matchup :: Yisroel B'tach BaHashem

Shlomo Carlebach

© 1993, Joy Krauthammer

"Your hands are the holiest part of your body
because they reach the highest."

- Reb Shlomo Carlebach

Avraham Fried

Kol Nidrei • Shlomo Carlebach

Posted in audio in 2009, this beauty is now with a picture :).

What a fantastic Chodesh Tishrei YOU'RE going to have! And YOU! And YOU! (Oprah does Birchas Habonim). And what successful New Year.

Good Yom tov, and Gmar chasima Tova,
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Monday Matchup :: Kaddish • Shlomo Carlebach/Dovid Horowitz

Shlomo Carlebach



Dovid Horowitz

Reb Shlomo's Havdalah • Yehuda Green

We're also LIVE right here: http://grooveshark.com/#!/shirshelyom/broadcast

Monday Matchup :: As Abie Remembers It...

"Tribute to Shlomo" (not sure of the year, but included on the original HASC Unforgettable Moments, 1987-1997).

Tribute to MBD & Fried, HASC 26, 2012.

Birchas Hachodesh/Mi She'asa • Yehuda Green

May you receive each and all of these blessings, may you feel them in your heart, may they support you and drive you forward, onward, upward till Hu yig'al osanu bikarov!

The guitar/violin intro to Birchas Hachodesh is the tune of the Mi She'asa that follows, further proving that you should meditate upon the two tracks in succession and with Shiluv.

Mi She'asa is the tune of R' Shlomo's Ani Maamin.

Mi she'oso nissim • Yehuda Green

TTTO Ani Maamin, R' Shlomo Carlebach, as posted here (February 2011).

The Question of Noach • R' Shlomo Carlebach

Thinking is a quieter form of singing.

Nafsheinu Chiksa • Shlomo CarlebachLive in Concert at Brooklyn College

This song's been sitting on my brain these last few days. Now it is on yours. :)

Ashamnu • Shlomo Carlebach

First 2 minutes: awesome intro, awesome nussach. At 2 minutes: Nafshenu chiksa. At 6:35: Niggun Nachamu. At 10:01, cut-off. I think these are two different recordings: 1) Ashamnu and 2) Nafshenu/Nachamu.

Ani Lo Misugal • Yehuda Glantz

It's taken me all day because there are very many tracks on this recording that are worth sharing. The main point, though, is that the songs on this album are all re-worked (translated, formatted, melodized) teachings of R' Shlomo Carlebach. Which are, in turn, teachings of Judaism with the particular influence of Chassidus.


Exhibit A: One who tells Hashem "Leave me alone. You don't have to watch me constantly." Hashem says: "Biseder gamur, have a nice day!" [As for me:] oy, Aibishter, I can't do this without you.

V'Shomru (Carlebach) • Yehuda Solomon

But I do have good news...



Shabbos is coming, and we will sense the Beis Hamikdash in our hearts, so we will want the Beis Hamikdosh in our minds, so we will build the Beis Hamikdosh with our hands and see it with our own eyes and dance inside it, listen to its music and praise Hashem, Hallelu-y-a! Now!

Have a joyous and meaningful Shabbos, easy and fast. If you must.

Vehoyu Limshisa • THE Chevra

"THE preeminent Jewish boy band today!"

— Ber Boimel, Spotlight on Music

Someone once told me that R' Shlomo Carlebach once noted to or about Avraham Fried "I don't mind if people copy my songs. I just mind if they ruin them." Or something.

I think it was about this song. **Now more ruined than ever!**

Ach, these 9 Days. Are you happy now, Roman conquerors? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW???

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