Monday Matchup :: Borchi Nafshi • Shlomo/Zohar

Shlomo Carlebach:




Zohar:




BONUS: Simply Tsfat, instrumental on Zohar version:

Monday Matchup :: Who We Are? • 8th Day/P.O.D.

"Avraham" 8th Day: Chasing Prophecy


"We are the youth of a nation" P.O.D.

Monday Matchup :: Niggun Simcha! • Avraham Fried/MBD

From "Hupp Cossack":

From "Kissufim":

Ahhhh, Yerushalayim! • Tzlil V'zemer/MBD

Literally, the only picture that comes up when you search "Tzlil V'Zemer." Is it my fault?

Same with "King of Jewish Music". Go figure.

Shameless.

Monday Matchup :: Geshem Kaved/A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

We've done this before, but we didn't know about Monday Matchups. Aviv Geffen translates and interprets...



...Bob Dylan's "A hard rain's gonna fall".

Monday Matchup :: Bnei Beischa/Build Your House!

"V'saiorev" Arvinam Freed – Goodbye Golus



"Wake Up" 8th Day – Brooklyn

Monday Matchup :: V'olu Moshi'im • MBD/Isaac Hoenig

Similar songs, similar sounds.

This MBD has some serious power.



This Hoenig guy has some beautiful sweet.



This mountain needs immediate love.

Monday Matchup :: Beggar Woman

Megama (part II of this song).



8th Day - Love the cover; don't know why the video (not theirs!) has a male beggar.

Monday Matchup :: Blues • Moshe Yess/Mendel Singer

Moshe Yess (Journeys), "Pesach Blues"


Mendel Singer, "Kosher Symbol Blues"

Monday Matchup :: Simple Isn't Easy • Lipa/Shloime Gertner

In the first, struggle-riddled song, Lipa describes how hard it is walk the walk. "I may not be the best...but I do try my best... The army's chef is still in the army... I'm not the greatest but I am trying hard; 'Tatty! Help me when I try!'"



In the second, reflective-mellow song, Shloime Gertner asserts that the Master of the world appreciates simple, honest steadfastness. "Oy, Riboin haoilomim, heint b'acharis hayumim... Oh G-d, today, the way we live, it's really hard to be wholesome...but I'll do what I can"

Plot twist: They're both by Lipa ;)

Monday Matchup :: Der Rebbe Zol Gezunt Zein

HT: Yitz

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?

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."

Monday Matchup :: Hinei Ma Tov • MBD/Fried

Image found on VINNEWS.com

MBD singing Avremel's Hinei Ma Tov from Aderaba.

Avremel singing Avremel's Hinei Ma Tov from Aderaba.

Oh, you two. Why don't you just go off and sing some Henei Ma Tov together... mmmkay?

Monday Matchup :: Asay • Chaim Dovid/Shlomo Simcha

Question: Is the more devoted talmid the one who sounds as if he is the rav, or the one who sounds like himself, thereby spreading the voice of the rav? Stam.

Monday Matchup :: Vizakeini • Baruch Levine/Avraham Fried

This one made it famous.



This one made it pleasant.



In my opinion. :)

Monday Matchup :: God, I Love You! • Adi Ran/Shloime Daskal

Monday Matchup :: Yaakov Meets Eisav • Yonatan Razel/Nichoach

We've done this before, but it's still so good!



We've never done this before. It's so good.



UPDATE: A number of people mentioned that they were concerned with the title of this post. In my haste to post and run, I did not delve into the possible meaning. It is, unfortunately, quite humorous. The matchup was certainly not supposed to be Yaakov meeting Eisav.

Monday Matchup :: Siman Tov! • MBD! vs MBD!

MBD Hold On!

MBD Let My People Go!

Any way you like it, good luck today! :D

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