Avraham Fried on Oct 7th #israel @Avraham_Fried @Mendyportnoymusic @ThankYouHashem

I must say that I have never felt the power of music like I've been feeling since the war began. >> Wow. >> 100%. I mean, everyone did. How many songs have blew up that are in the vein of what everyone was feeling out of or or in the vein of Erchi Straw at that time, you know? So many careers have blew up, so many songs blew up. >> Because I I could just see how you come into a room with people who just witnessed some horrific Zaka people. There's an organization in Israel called Shura. Have you ever heard of Shura? >> No. >> Neither did I till I went to sing to them. >> Shura? >> Zaka brings in the bodies and Shura has to identify them. That's their job. >> Oh my gosh. >> This is the week after the war started. So they had just seen some horrific things. And my job was to kind of, I don't know, give them back some life, give them back some chizuk. And uh it was >> [snorts] >> you walked into a tough situation, you know, there was a a thickness in the room. But But can you say to such people? What are you going to started singing and after 2 hours later, thank God, the place was dancing. Some cried, we laughed, we danced. >> That can be very healing. >> So I saw the power of of a nigun how it could just lift you up and give you back life.