Teardrop • Journeys II

Challenge: fit this tune into Shabbos, Yom Tov or Yomim Noraim davening.

Above: Abie Rotenberg making teardrops.

Image by Jewish Insights

Monday Matchup :: Kavei El Hashem • Journeys/MBD

Chazak!

Journeys III featuring The Piamentas:



MBD, Maaminim:

Fifer/Yankel • Monday Matchup

A young boy grows into an old fool. What eventually happens? How do his parents react? And what does this come to show? This Monday-matchup is your invitation to felafesize on the topic.

Moshe Yess - "Rabbi Yitzchak Levi Fifer" - (Album: Shabbos on my mind)



Abie Rotenberg - "Yankel" - (Album: Journeys II)

Yerushalayim • Abie Rotenberg

It's Monday Match-up!

The idea generally, is two singers or songs with similar lyrical content that you may compare using any metric you desire. This match-up in particular pits two different channels of the same singer with similar lyrical content. What do you think of each and why?

Abie Rotenberg and Journeys.



Abie Rotenberg and Shlomo Simcha.


May we sing these and many more, right away, in Yerushalayim eternally!

Little Kite • Journeys II

What is Journeys? Journeys is a collection of songs that are not afraid to ask questions out loud. Little Kite is the philosophy behind this confidence. Someone once said: If you think G-d is made up, it's because you think you could make Him up.

Neshomele • Journeys

It is bitter cold in New York.
We have what to be thankful for.
Let it warm our Shabbos souls, and let Shabbos warm our souls.

Yes, dear Malach'l, I can see Kedusha over there!

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe was asked why he "wasted" precious resources on the types of people who had abandoned mainstream Jewish commitment and showed no signs of turning back.

"Because," he responded, "there are four sections to Shulchan Aruch. And of those four sections, Choshen Mishpat is the fourth. And within Choshen Mishpat are scores of sub-sections, each with a collection of individual chapters. And in one of the very last sections, covered by a handful of points, are the laws explaining ascent and descent.

"We have to learn in order: the first 3 sections of purposeful, vibrant, joyful Jewish living and the main thrust of the fourth. When we are done, we can look at that last part and dare to judge who is going up or down."

Good Shabbos, friends.

Freely paraphrased from Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1, Parshas Bo, Ch.12-17.

Pesach Blues - Journeys (Moshe Yess)

I mean, of course!

Please tune your ears to these few songs as well. Though not tagged as such, they are Pesach songs with Pesach souls.

And, MY GOD! Let. Us. Be. Free.

Happy Pesach, friends!

Yerushalaim, We're Going Home!!! - Journeys

It's Time to Say Good Shabbos! - Journeys I

What a classic! Good Shabbos everyone.

UPDATE: Oooh, totally almost forgot to tag this as Dov Levine Whom We Love!

The Place Where We Belong - Rotenberg, Rotenberg & Tsfat

We heard this first as the Sefer Torah song on Journey's One. Then we heard it as Chasal Siddur Pesach on Lev V'Nefesh One and thought that Abie composed it for that and borrowed it for Journey's One. Then we met the Chezzard in Shul this morning who pointed us to Simply Tsfat An Old Jewish Melody. But, if we're all about the Journey anyway...anyway...

Simply Tsfat - An Old Jewish Melody


Journey's One - The Place Where I Belong


Lev v'Nefesh - Chasal Siddur Pesach


Discuss.

Lulei Soroscha - Journey's III

To ShimSham and the others:
There is so much to learn, Rebbe,
All those seforim in the Liberry...

Thanks for spreading G-d's word.

We've Got the Music!

I've only recently begun to fully appreciate the reflective genius of this song. The accurate style references to each artist and their place in the hierarchy of Jewish music...
What Billy Joel did with a century of pop culture in "We didn't start the fire," Abie did here. (I Just wish there was a Wiki-P page that expoundedon each reference as there is for "Fire.")
I can't wait to listen to it in 15 years.

Click here to listen.

As long as there has been a Jewish Nation, Music has been an integral component of its history and culture. From the Shira sung by our ancestors at the Yam Suf to the brilliant compositions of Dovid Hamelech; from the exquisite harmonies of the Levi'im in the Beis Hamikdosh, to the musical expressions of faith contained in the melodies of the great Chassidic Rebbes of Europe.

But in this century, and even more so during the past thirty years, we've witnessed the virtual explosion of creative Jewish song:

From Rosenblatt on gramaphone, to Ohr Chodosh and Simchatone,
From Yom Tov Ehrlich's Yiddish tunes, to 613 Torah Avenue,
With full orchestral symphonies and digital technologies,
Forever will these songs exist on chrome-cassette (Ha!) and compact disc.

Modzitz/Shenker what a pair! Yankel Talmid: Songs of Ger,
Shlomo Carlebach #1; Pirchei Sings; The Rabbi's Sons;
Neginah with Yisroel Lamm; Diaspora Yeshiva Band;
Uncle Moishy for your child; Piamentas going wild, going wild, going wild!

Yes! We've got the music, songs both new and old, there's nothing like a niggun, it's music for your soul!

Yigal Calek, Yossi Green, Marvelous Midos Machine,
Avraham Fried, Regesh too! Nochum Segal - FMU,
Shteeble Hoppin' all around, D'veykus songs to calm you down,
Bobov, Munkatch, Satmar, Skver, Lenny's Shlock Rock if you dare, if you dare, if you dare!

CHORUS

Mendlowitz, Suki/Ding, ?Abie's? Camp S'dei Chemed sing,
Ira Heller, Dov Levine, Rashi and the Rishonim,
Moshe Yess - Megama, the sounds of Kol Salonika,
Journeys 1, 2 and 3, the one and only... MBD, MBD!

The sweet sonunds of Lcha dodi, sung in perfect harmony, zmiros on a friday night, a kumzitz in the candlelight
but one thing we must keep in mind: a Jewish song of any kind is only precious if, and when, it brings us closer to Hashem.

Tzlil v'Zemer (Woo!), Miami, Jo Amar, Sharabi,
Noam singers harmonize, Neshoma tapes for exercise,
WEVD, Michoel Streicher, destiny,
And if there's something new you seek, a new tape comes out every week, every week, every week!

CHORUS

Shmuel Kunda's storytapes, Moshe Laufer orchestrates,
Rechnitzer's for comedy, Chabad sings merry melodies (wtf? Stick it, man!),
Lev v'Nefesh, Chaveirim, Zohar and the brother Zim,
Top Chai Reviews with Jacob Klass, now don't forget Yeshiva Brass
Veroba, Lang, Nullman too, recorded all at Systems II,
Ruach music fills the room, "Mona" Moshe Rosenblum,
The Amazing Torah Bike, Yeedle and....