Jewish Concert Galah - Abie Rotternberg Journeys and More

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Greater New York has provided the community with over the years for now though we will go right to the music our first performer is no newcomer to the world of Jewish music he has performed on countless albums and is world renowned for his incredible talent and music IAL Charisma of course I speak of gon veroba whose [Applause] latest whose latest hit album entitled turn it around has been embraced by his many fans worldwide lately garon has been busy performing for variations and has entertained thousands in venues around the world please join me in welcoming a great talent to begin a great evening garon ver [Applause] thank you very much ladies and gentlemen a little further back than a couple of years ago I was privileged enough to be reunited with another friend to make an album that worked so well we're now working on the third one variations has now reached uh popularity to Israel and South Africa and we're not done by a long shot please welcome my partner in variations ladies and gentlemen Mr Harold [Applause] [Music] kler a long long time ago I can still remember how I dreamt about being a billionaire and I knew that if I had my way that I'd be super rich one day and maybe I'd be happy for a while that luxury would all be mine all day long i' wi and die I'd have it my way part's night and day Cadillac successive Fame you know I quickly learned to play the game happiness was there to find the day the music so by by big American lie I tried to buy some meaning with no meaning to buy they say drink and be married for tomorrow we die it's the big American Li it's the big American lie did you write the book of success and will money find you happiness everybody tells so now you got the mansion and the swimming pool but you don't want to go to show link Continental land oh a men and the mercedesbenz will always bring you lots of friends hey wake up you phony don't believe the baloney oh I had it all I couldn't want more but I didn't know what I was living for then suddenly I realized that day they all all has I started singing by by big American Li I tried to buy some meaning with no meaning to buy they say to can't be married for tomorrow we die it's the big American line it's the big American line now for 10 years I've been on my own since I came to that wall St it's called the Western Wall say have you met sh Queen said may your shoes s like a dream the Torah he said it's for you and me now when I sh create Immortal men you know we had a special we went to Yesa to St oh it blew my mind away and then while reading the book from the yard saw those words go into my heart and I came running out from the dark the day the music I started singing by by big American Li I tried to find some meaning with no meaning to they say got be married for tomorrow we die the big American the big American Li I only wished I heard before all I wanted maybe more but better late than never they say now sink your teeth into a tow room shot a toast or your daily blot get some holy food to feed your [Music] mind don't waste time on silly things like Cadillacs and fancy Rings no designer thing you wear he going to help you out upstairs we've had it all with songs that sa we're only living for today it's time to sing a song of Truth on the day the music Li so bye by being I tried to buy some meing with no meaning to BU they say drink and be married for tomorrow we die it's the big American L it's the big americ everybody One More Time by American Li I tried to buy some feeling with no meing to buy they say can't be Mar for tomorrow we die is the big American [Music] [Applause] it said that somebody once asked his Reby he said I only have 5 minutes a day to learn tah what should I stud give me some advice so the Reby looked at him and he said if you only have 5 minutes study muser study ethics and his teachings and you'll find really have more than 5 minutes a day and just like our time in this world is measured our words are also measured we're told we are given a certain number of words to speak through our lifetime we ought not waste them unless as are speaking people of other people it said that theis asked for a birthday party on his 90th birthday and people felt that was somewhat out of character for him being so modest and when I asked for an explanation he said that his entire life he trying to explain to people the value of Shir guarding your tongue and speaking good only about other people and that it promises a long life and now he wanted to show that it was really true he tried to teach us the art of Silence hello Shalom my dear friend I've come to talk with you again we haven't spoken since 1903 around the turn of the century but the message that you planted in my brain still remain it was the sound of Simon you talk then what words could do how they could twist their m true words can build and words can devastate words can establish love or senseless hate and like daggers they can Pierce a person's heart split upon the the very Sound of Silence and in [Applause] 1931 I married off my son when he asked me for some sound advice I told him sound would be more precise you must measure every word that leaves your lips relationship sh flourish on the sound of silence and in [Applause] 1953 with my grandon on my knee he has the secret of lity I said the trick is sensitivity you must judge every person favor [Applause] [Music] master theond of silence and in [Applause] 1999 we're still around and doing fine as your 107th birthday years I wish you many more joyful years myar sh such loyal friends are scarce and few thanks to you we're spreading the sound of sun [Music] [Applause] we probably have all heard about the Dream Team the basketball team made up of various players from various teams who under other circumstances may have been in each other's throats but when working together can only accomplish Victory I'd like to think about the dream minion made up of people from all sorts of walks of life of Judaism and all sorts of Stripes coming together for just one purpose great as [Music] there's a sh in New Jersey that is one of a kind where 10 people come and every day what makes it so special are the people inside their backgrounds and the way in which they pray is y from Washington he gradua body [Music] you shine is ay pretty unque likei what a mess [Applause] such when what will keep this alive and isra with the keep he stands there with intense concentration Stanley is a OFA too he's got a with an English translation he wears a black hat and shs a bendy is originally from Brown height and yes of course he oh yes what a m how could such a survive what on What will keep this minion alive Alex came from Russia not so long ago and do like the holiest of mens and diamonds of V to and that brings us to our mil of 10 if no one ever sings to fet or complain consider one another best of friends for they know that together they're all ding to the one and all what a sight Delight this of for you for me where you see with our nation what aight this before you for me where a team you sing with Happ this our nation survives [Music] [Applause] [Music] two yeah that's oh yeah 5 2 1 2 3 and into my life a 63 it's beautiful and it's mine it's and what to believe it's milk and honey and wine 63 it's beautiful and it's m the laws of money my son telling the truth the lul love and the birds in the co the law are finding your stupid jaob Sons as shs it's gold Ste freem incline 63 it's beautiful that is mine here we go that's it one more time you keep it cling going now face up comes the TOs 11 every sh is made in heaven a good keep the pag I know what we need we get when we pray so St theck the M this WIS you it's beautiful and it's fine yeah 63 it's beautiful and 6 so beautiful andine oh oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my you can say that too all my my oh my all mine take it out 6 so beautiful and it's thank you e [Music] it's 445 in the [Music] morning the regular crowd shuffles in there's an old man sitting next to me wrapped up in Talis s feeling [Music] he said Son can you think me a n I'm not really sure how it goes but it's sad it's sweet and I knew it complete and it comes from deep down in your soul [Music] sing us the song of a c man sing us a song today while we're all in the moon for a Melody for anot that will help us all pray [Music] now Jo got a store in the city he's supposed to be there 9 to5 but he learns his do only forgets about money he says he's got enough to [Music] survive he saysi how I love to learn to how I love to follow its ways and soon I'll have enough to retire and then I can stay here all day oh la oh now's a real estate millionaire gives to Du and so does his wife and he learns with a keep still in your and probably will be theive and no one is talking about politics cuz they come here to learn and to pray oh yes these Sun they come to us sing cuz that's how they start off the day sing sing us the song today well we're all in the moon for a Melody for that will help us all pray [Applause] it's a pretty good crowd for a Wednesday and the goe tells me to begin as the sound of my Tom is heard through the room the rest of the people join in and as the sun rose above the Horizon the angels dance as we pray as we shared in the feeling of Holiness to begin to start off our day man the song today where for abil for an that will help us all pray [Applause] J and Harold brookler variation [Applause] ladies and gentlemen at this time we'd like to take an opportunity to acknowledge and thank a variety of individuals and groups and committees who are responsible for this evening's success please join me in thanking them for all their hard work chairman of tonight's Precious Moments concert Michael [Music] [Applause] mbam co-chair Lester shaffron if you look in your program you'll see an entire list in the souvenir program of the benefit concert number two committee would like thank the entire committee thank you to the Jewish hospice Queens Community Advisory [Applause] Board special thanks to its chairman hesy Baron [Applause] thank you R Jacob class editor of the Jewish press for his exceptional support during the weeks and months before this event special thanks to our guest of honor again who whose biography you'll see this evening stage Bill he's the president and CEO of the New York Hospital Medical Center in Queens Stephen s Mills which leads to our special thanks to or Hospital Medical Center of Queens as this evening's corporate sponsor thank [Music] you also like to thank our corporate benefactors Fleet bank and the Jewish Press thank you all of our generous donors and patrons are listed again in the souvenir program we urge you to take a look at those names and again we acknowledge and thank all of them for their very hard work and financial support we like to thank the Executive Vice President of the delivery sister for Metropolitan Jewish Health System Maxine huser executive EP of managed care for Metropolitan Jewish Health System Dan Castle we welcome and thanks New York City thank New York city councilman from Queens Morton [Applause] pman New York city councilwoman Karen kwit and from Queens as well assemblyman Brian mcin chairman of the central labor Council thank you thanks to the president of the Queens Jewish Community Council Sandra [Applause] alans to the mum of queens and specifically by Zev Goldberg administrator for Jewish Hospice of Greater New York Abby [Music] Gordon executive director and C Chief development officer Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric foundation and Foundation staff for their incredible support led by Norman gilin producers of tonight's event suie and d and entire staff and L center from Alice Tully ball thank [Applause] you and finally thanks to all of you for your attendance and your show of support tonight [Applause] [Music] ladies ladies and gentlemen it's a great pleasure that I introduced tonight's featured performer although he doesn't really think of himself as a performer in fact we are more used to him as a brilliant composer a multi-talented musician a person who has the unique abilities to create arrange and present some of the most beautiful Jewish music songs we've enjoyed for decades it is a rare treat to have them featured on any stage and therefore tonight Jewish Hospice in all of us are very very lucky to have him here ladies and Gentlemen please join me in welcoming the one and only AB Rottenberg [Applause] even ladies and gentlemen thank you for the very warm welcome We Gather here tonight in support of the Jewish Hospice of Greater New York an organization that demonstrates the qualities of raah indeed why are the Jewish people so devoted and caring to one another the answer is rooted in our faith our faith in the almighty and our love of his Torah the Torah which compels us to live a life of kindness and generosity so we'll start our program tonight with a little song about faith and I'd like to ask two very talented vocalists very dear friends of mine to join me on stage ladies and Gentlemen please welcome doine off my schu from LaGuardia on the bright sunny [Music] Su what a cheerful treeo they appeared to be they were off the ground west bound to The Atheist convention in La Peter was a lawyer from Manhattan oh how so yous and sheeps said made and how practice dentistry in wood with the clouds below they were on the go to The Atheist convention in so glad will be staying at the will come I can't wait to spend a day in Disneyland did you hear this year than letting in agnostics the convention should be answer BR there'll be speeches that will ponder our existence religious Dogma will come up Fierce attack that we all once were primat is our mod and that big Bang's not a theory but a fact Peter Ed White M with his dinner Che how would mamed Askin there was a in the next girl e koser could he be so naive to still believe that someone up there watching over suddenly there was a big explosion everyone began to scream and whale the plane was in a spin and losing altitude he cried Mery father andam and in Hebrew how it [Music] said so glad we'll be staying at the hill I can't wait to spend the day in Disneyland did you hear this year that letting in agnostics let connection should be absolutely that be speeches that under our existence religious dog my will come under Fierce attack that we all once were primates our and not a theory but a fact well just before that final awful impact while everyone was sure that they would die somehow some why the angines came to life again and just a few yards from the trees with what seemed to be great ease the pilot flew the pl back to the sky everyone gave thanks to God in heaven it was a miracle that on this day the turned and as the trio with a smile with your colors showing will you still be going to The Atheist convention [Music] in is now priest in Cincinnati and mam build of mos Santa F but how would SP the DST out he would but now faited flying onited to the aention to the aention the convention [Music] [Applause] the of CLA is comprehensive as the name of hasem indicates he was is and always will be and this idea is beautifully expressed in one of the 13 ons of the ram and we've tried to capture the message in a song recorded back in 1990 on the fourth vist album [Music] [Applause] [Music] GL [Music] is is [Music] oh is for [Applause] [Music] ohy let all [Music] [Applause] the know on the all [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] oh oh [Music] your the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh know sh shall is [Music] you might father we oh the [Applause] oh oh [Music] at most significant Jewish music events the Nina Orchestra and our conductor this evening really needs no introduction I've had the pleasure of working with him on numerous occasions numerous projects over the years and I must say that he as much as any vocalist or songwriter has helped to shape and establish Jewish music as we know it today ladies and gentlemen the very talented musician and Ranger [Applause] well another one of the round's principles of Faith details our belief in the world to come in the sa for G there's a beautiful Parable that compares the difference between the womb in this world to this world on the next the next song conversation in the womb is based on that Marshall and was recorded back in 1984 on the first Journey's album I should mention that a short time before that someone had given me a copy of an album produced by ncsy called the TOA connection there was one voice on the recording that I had never heard before thought was particularly beautiful I called the ncsy office they gave me the person's number in fact we did that duet together on the Journey's album that person ladies and gentlemen was and is the [Applause] [Music] my dear brother look around and tell your eyes don't deny that you see it's only you and me without a Rhyme or Reason to our without a RH or Reason to our Liv but dear brother you must have faith that we are not the only on CU in the distance there's a place where we stand up T and straight oh I believe that there there is a world to come yes I believe that there is a world to come my dear brother don't be blind don't be stubborn don't be set imagination it's all right but it won't light up the night what you see is exactly what you get what you see is exactly what you get but dear brother you will surely find when all is said and done that the future it will show there is so much we don't know oh I believe that there is a world to come [Applause] yes I believe that there is a world to [Music] come my dear brother where have you gone is this the moment I have known I can faintly hear a cry my dear brother must have died it's all over now forever I'm alone it's all over now forever all alone but dear brother please don't mourn me when my life has just begun just what you hear are sounds of Joy congratulations it's a Bo oh I believe that there is a world to come yes I believe that there is a world to come cuz what you hear our sounds of Joy congratulations it's a Bo soon you be here with me in this world to come soon we'll be together in this world [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] among those most responsible for spreading and promoting auna to our youth perpetuating it from generation to generation is of course the rabim and moros the devoted teachers and educators of our [Music] children when I first moved to Toronto in 1984 I wrote a song that expresses what I feel to be as one of the most important ingredients being a good teacher but I had a problem the melody for the song was a country tune and who in Jewish music could sing fortunately just a few days after arriving in Toronto I learned that a very talented songwriter singer and guitarist moved into town just a few blocks away boy can he sing country ladies and Gentlemen please [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcomeing the a could not have picked a better week for me to come here and sing this song for you [Music] guitar and gentlemen bit louder please when we she boys way back in 65 we were on throughout the city as the bombs from the East side in school we never study all we did was laugh and play and don't ready lasted long they all just R away re triy to teach us Torah each and every day you just close our eyes and ears say all we like to do was sit watch our TV sets we talked about the [Applause] I've been waiting for that all day and the Dodgers and the me well the principal brought the new Reby in first video of the tour and he said to him show discipline be strong com don't let these youngsters run the school s a big brown and out the way for the next few weeks I'm going out of town well this year re he was strange never lost his cool he kept right on teaching while we broke all the rules even though we hadn't learned a single thing all year it was pce off time already and that Rey was still here let he tried to teach us po teach every day he just closed our eyes and he everything say all we like can do was sit and watch our TV sets we talk about the Yankees and the Dodgers and the well when V momer came around it was time for the big game against those boys from Brooklyn he pray and shouldn't R all nine of us got on the bus with our gloves and back Ry also came along with his jacket tired right from the Star we all could see things weren't going right some big Straw from Ben and H one say just as things were looking I bet the tide about to turn our catcher W broke his leg while sliding in third it's some forit cried the other te you only got eight guys no we don't deep voice said much to our surprise since I am there Reby the fair thing it would see let me be the ninth man n man of the team well Reby went picked up the bat and faced the picture with a smile I knock the cover off that wall went about half a mile he flew around the bases he scored the winning run and we danced and cheered until he said now boys you owe me one well the next day in the classroom no one moved and no one stirred let he started teacher and his voice it could be heard we all say hey it's interesting the Manny is no Bor the legendary East Side bones were gone forever more ready toach eyes and ears no more can we sit all day watch our TV set ah we talk about Rashi and the tophus so uh we have a sequel to the ninth man we're working on it we're working on it we got we got one verse and one chorus yeah so I'm going to just give it to AB a little bit tell one people always ask you know whatever happened to those guys back in 1965 it's about 35 years ago I'm sure you all remember us the moment from the East side well now we live in Lakewood but we're pushing 45 we have lots of children loads of bills to pay no one's into baseball what we do is learn [Music] all each and every day we open up our eyes and ears every we thanks to him well learned virtuous and wise but one thing is for certain we don't get no [Applause] exercise we open up our eyes and one thing is for we don't get [Applause] [Music] [Applause] much this past week was the fifth yard site the greatest Jewish composer of our [Applause] [Music] time he revived the spirit of the Jewish people after World War II with a musical style that was new yet it was rooted in the Liturgy and Melodies ofic Europe his music was never just entertainment it was a means to elevate to bring even closer to the maker for this alone we miss him so very much thankfully we have his music more popular today than ever he left us countless Melodies to remember the treas ladies and gentlemen with the help of Dove and schy this is our tribute to SCH [Applause] people think people [Applause] say that the saddest thing in life is when someone passes on and leaves this world let me tell you let me tell you that the saddest thing in life is when someone leaves this world and leaves nothing behind that [Music] you you left us us all of Cl Israel with a legacy a small piece of your precious Soul you left us with the gift of your song not for not for weal only to bring us closer to bring your brothers sisters and children closer to the master of the world [Music] yes may my sh oh [Music] she oh [Applause] [Music] how you love your fellow Jew you brought hope and you brought comfort to the battlefields and prisons to where no one else to no one else to go into the darkest night of Russia into the coldest distant heart and you lifted up our spirit with your tears and with your love [Music] shall I sh my k [Music] to tell you the truth to tell you the truth everyone knows that your music is not sad at all it is filled with so much joy so much joy and so much for the past 40 years there has never been a the in the did not dance to [Music] the [Music] sh the sh [Music] oh what about t sh Hal sh lifting Shar what about Shar we know the highest holiest most special day in your life was the sh and you brought so many back to the sh and so many [Music] many the still searching for sh still [Music] hoping jus [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh I sh shal [Music] heing [Music] world is Afra to sing a song of sh I am to sing a song of sh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh to say over your beautiful stories and to sing all your songs would M take forever if not longer but there is one more thing one more thing that I must say to you you taught us how to turn to how to pray for the holy holy city of how to cry for to bring us [Music] back to love you [Music] for for now [Music] those who not keep my way keep my way keep all way keep all my way keep [Applause] the [Applause] my way all I [Applause] great honor to be here I have the pleasure and honor of serving in the Jewish Community as the vice president of the Jewish community relations Council of New York I'm also the senior vice president American Jewish Congress Lester and I serve on our Temple boards and queens and that you all are participating in active members in the Jewish Community you serve in many roles some of those roles are quite important others are given to you as honors if you're a member of the temple you serve on the awards and you serve on the various committees many people fight for the be head of the education committee the ways of Means Committee or the Brotherhood or Sisterhood and other committees the caring committee and most of the temples and organizations in New York City that are the ones that don't get the recognition they deserve that don't get the attention but those people that serve on the caring committees serve a great deal of purpose and they're needed and they should be recognized and tonight we're recognizing probably what I would like to call is the caring Committee of New York and that's the Jewish hospice and we have a great deal of thank for them very much their staff is wonderful headed up by Norman gildon headed up by and those of you that have been asked to chare events it could be a dinner it could be any event in your community you know that when you're asked to do something some people say well hand me the list well these gentlemen in the Jewish hospice goes beyond that they don't just ask for that they get you involved and it's a pleasure to be involved and it's a better pleasure and I give you a great deal of satisfaction to know that you're dealing with some people that have a great deal of dedication and professionalism and Lester and I and others hope to be back next year for concert number three welcome everybody the following uh people please come out to be recognized Abby Gordon administrator Maxis vice president and Harold Baron [Music] [Applause] CH thank you all since taking over the hospital which was formerly known as Booth Memorial the New York Hospital Medical Center of queens has catered to the needs of the Jewish community in a manner probably unmatched by any other Medical Institution in just a few years New York Hospital Queens has engaged a full-time Rabbi as a Chaplain has constructed a complete synagogue on its premises has erected and maintained an ARA which connects with the arabin of adjacent communities it has contracted for cated kosher food for its patients and its guests has developed an inservice program and a required course for its staff on the special needs and requirements of Jewish patients and it has provided free of charge to apartments for use of relatives of patients who stay over on shabus or in addition the hospital also hosts meetings of our hospice advisory committee it is for this reason and for these reases and in recognition of these efforts that we honor tonight Steven S Mills the president and CEO of the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens [Music] I'm honored to present to you this award which reads an appreciation distinguished community service Award presented with deepest gratitude to Steven S Mills president and chief executive officer the New York Hospital Medical Center of queens and recognition of your outstanding service your Civic minded concerns and your great Humanity it is with pride that we acknowledge your abiding commitment to Excellence and your distinguished and highly respected leadership ship in our community your ongoing support of the Jewish Hospice of Gren New York helps meet the specialized needs of terminally ill patients and their families signed Jewish Hospice of Greater New York Harold Baron chairman Community Advisory Board and Abby Gordon administrator thank you this morning [Applause] good evening I'm thrilled to receive this word It's a Wonderful concert and a wonderful night for a great cause I'd like to present my sincere thanks and congratulations to everyone responsible for organizing this benefit concert for what for such a worthwhile organization at the Jewish hospice special thanks to Mike npom the associate publisher of new Communications who is Chairman of tonight's benefit concert work part to bring us all together for this important cause in February of 1998 the hospice of Greater New York and the Jewish Hospice of Greater New York teamed with the New York Hospital Queens to provide patient crisis and resid care to people who are in the final stages of life it was a responsibility that we gladly accepted hospice is essentially a Home Care Program based on the philosophy of managing the physical emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients and their families in the comfort of their own home the structure of the hospice program provides a Continuum of Care that is reassuring and comforting individuals in their families who are confronting and learning how to accept and manage the end stages of Life the New York Hospital Queens is very privileged to offer the sensitive and emotionally demanding hospital-based care that is sometimes required by hospice patients during difficult periods of their illness a strong emphasis is placed on relieving pain to ensure that a patient quality of life is maintained and enhanced if possible our hospice team is made up of individuals who provide comprehensive services to meet the needs of families facing the overwhelming issues related to LIF limiting illness tonight we come together to enjoy this magnificent musical program an emblem of support for the great work of the Jewish Hospice of Greater New York the caregivers of the hospice will with this generosity of your financial and spiritual giving continue the work of caring for others at their time of greatest need I and the entire staff of New York Hospital Queens will continue to strengthen that care partnership to assist those in need in the burrow of Queens many of members of my staff are here tonight and I thank particularly uh Rabbi keing and Ken and Pat [Applause] well deserved all of those people spend inordinate time and will continue to do so to help bring better Continuous Care at all levels to the people of the burrow of Queens thank you all so very [Applause] much you just saw heshy Baron up here we want want to wish Donnie Baron and SD h r got G and they are here with us tonight please welcome the executive director and chief development officer of the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Foundation Norman B [Applause] Gilden good evening and welcome I ladies and gentlemen accompanied by the brilliant yra lamb and the Nino Orchestra a great pleasure that I again present i' ask you to welcome AB Rottenberg and friend [Applause] I remember clearly my first day Ina gadola back in 1971 I was just a raw kid out of high school and I approached the M telling him I needed ausa so he tells me you see that person in the back of the base meish in the corner he's also looking for and I think it'll be a perfect two of you the truth is it was a perfect not because we learned much but because a little over a year later label Charon and I had recorded the first fous album label here ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Yi slick [Applause] Rey [Applause] [Music] s now are [Music] see the [Music] for GL [Music] the has a [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] ra [Music] [Applause] ra me [Music] ra [Music] ra my [Applause] [Music] I for [Music] May the of [Music] all [Music] your [Music] GL the [Music] the [Music] most he M know [Music] for sh [Applause] the will will [Music] sh the sh [Music] shall shall [Music] you [Applause] [Music] in home all the s of King King [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] audience had AA how hard we have to in h for a show like this you say I gr think they have a pretty good idea though they not the mean of being that they feel that they got good chabas for their tickets what's your t on this Amy my T is if you guys keep talking like this I'm getting out [Music] here a language a new way to talk and speak is the most imposing challenge of monumental feet it takes a special talent is not for the faint of heart and most are du to failure before they even St but in the host ofo spot and wide you not to with unish English Hebrew with and atic that's [Music] [Applause] [Music] called what's the you know just talking of that's what anall I can hear a the is might be there the to of the town here we go precise the language to be used if you want to is event Why without it the mother would TR to make no sense so listen close your sha guys it's the thing to do be Mar is this great language to all our fellow Jews and let me offer you an answer that will end the serenade when I print the dictionary that translates [Music] yes yes [Music] she it's the T of the to good [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I've had the privilege of collaborating and connecting with AB through nigan for over 25 years and of all of his beautiful nunam to me this one song transcends them all I think it's okay to say that maybe at SII when am was receiving the Torah the ab n was not only receiving the Torah like receiving the Torah song the place where I belong I did not know he was going to say [Music] that I was made way back in ag 1842 by a humble man a real God fearing [Music] Jew who did his work with honesty with feeling and with pride he was known in K as young The [Music] Scribe with love and care his hands so short and still he formed me with some parchmen in and quill each day he slowly add to me just a few more lines with words to last till the end of time on the day that I was finally complete [Music] [Applause] the whole town came and filled the Narrow Street and they sang and danced and held me high as they Carri me away to the little wooden Sho where I would stay as the rabbi held me close against his chest he spoke out loud and clear to all the men he said no matter if you're very young or even if you're old live by the words you'll find inside this [Music] scroll three days a week they read from me out loud it filled my soul with joy it made me proud they followed each and every verse with fire in their eyes the words that told them how to live their Liv I watch the generations comeing home I saw the old men 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