Motzei Shabbos Kumzitz - Project Inspire Convention 2017

check it one two one two perfect this is galdi [Music] okay this is there something there what is it noticed that this thing was uh by the wayv F was sharp so I stopped [Music] playing instead of a regular Co it that we uh you know the organizers kind of requested that we should talk a little bit about the songs so first of all I want to invite any of you if you have any questions about Jewish music I'll try to answer if I know the answer if not I'll make it up but somehow you'll get some kind of an answer so people are always asking me what's the inspiration for the songs this first song that was starting was there was a very big sadic that lived in Seagate where we live his name was he was the and um he had a t that he used to sing to himself every time when he was when he was daving when he was when he was saying tum he had he had actually two but one of them went like this and later on later later on I realized that these these T were developed into songs and I realized afterwards that it came from those from hearing him so the first one you probably know and it goes [Music] [Laughter] [Music] oh [Music] oh and again [Laughter] [Music] that wasn't there by the [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] way and a few years later the C [Applause] [Music] fore [Music] for the [Music] the the fall [Music] again [Music] his for [Music] oh leave you the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] fore [Music] for k [Music] like to take you back toer before before we go to I just want everyone to know over here that um this is about behind the scenes L comum it we are trying to recreate over here how these songs are created this platform here is yosi's living room where all the songs happen and uh we hope to try and recapture tonight a little bit of what actually goes on let's see how these n going come to be and share with you a little bit of that man [Music] fore [Music] foree for [Music] for [Music] you know what the inspiration for this song was I don't know if you ever ever told you about this no who the rabbish and do I don't know if um I don't know if we should say it here but say it we'll say it anyway you're I if you remember when uh we were kids and if we had a specifically difficult Reba sometimes it happen right and um 9:00 was when the rebba was supposed to show up and to be there on time and so at 5: to 9: everybody was already nervous can do this in D Minor by the way minor anyway so um then if you if you remember every once in a while it would become 9:00 and the Reb is not here and everybody's sitting waiting for the re to show up and it's 9:01 9:03 9:05 boys decided to look at each other like you know maybe this is going to be a good day you know 9:10 9:50 now it's already really I mean and the energy level in the class is starting and before you know it the place is stops and people are throwing things at TI you know there was always one kid that was standing at the front door just to make sure in case the reab shows up I was that kid always I was afraid to uh and then you know if we were lucky then a substitute would show up or whatever but every once in a while the did make it so I would be standing at the door say the should do the should do the should do so quickly and the reab would walk into the room and everything would everybody was sitting in their place but you can feel that the ener that something was going on here so this is what this is what inspired the [Music] song oh [Music] yes Yi what happened you were talking about the r before that that he there were two t let's save that for a little later let's talk about you the nees I'm fortunate because um I got to know two of the great greatest singers that CL ever had one of them lives down my block and one of them lives a 15 minute ride from me and um they were close friends and I wrote a did nees for either of them so we'll do we'll do the first one we'll do uh then we go okay just it's uh when we were talking about what to sing here tonight I I I asked Yosi to to put these songs in because the first time I heard these songs like it really invoked to me a an AEM a love for Hashem and that's what we're trying to accomplish here in this weekend that we should walk away and really just reignite that that that flame it shouldn't just be wrote what we do [Music] the left [Music] the [Music] of oh the [Music] the [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the home [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's go to one [Music] for of [Music] the [Music] oh Lord [Music] she [Music] [Applause] [Music] his [Music] the ho Lord [Music] let's pick up the let's pick up the beat a little bit so about uh I don't remember exactly when it was about 20 years ago there was a famous song in the world there was a called Don't Worry Be [Music] Happy the the the everywhere you went you saw t-shirts don't worry be happy don't worry so time I was curious what do what do our what do our sources what do our Forum what what do they say about worry is it a good thing is it a bad thing should we worry should we not worry and the first the first text that I found which by the way people said the Evan Ezra wrote it wrote it turns out it was a neighbor of the SCH cish who wrote this lyric and it went something like this [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] see that I [Music] go [Applause] so this Source seem to be saying that it's not a good ide that um that you don't have to worry worry is not s senseless no reason to worry then I looked I looked into a uh for another source and I found there a written by the brother of the moral and he seemed to say just the opposite he said that people don't worry enough and they worry about the wrong things so this happened [Music] for [Music] fore with your [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so now we had two sources one was one said that it's a good thing to worry and the other one said it's not a good thing to worry so we didn't know what to do so um remember a Ramel came over one night and we decided that night to to be M once and for all [Music] she [Music] [Applause] [Music] tonight is Mo amazing [Music] question is the fifth song we were going to do what so as we were saying before that the uh the rebba had Ren of had these two that he used to sing to himself which eventually became songs so the first one he heard was ad that when D used to learn he had another little tal that went like this [Music] I'm getting ahead of myself you start [Music] LIF night LIF [Music] your might [Music] heab oh ah [Music] your might [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh oh [Music] heav see that's what that's why he gets to do those [Music] parts for [Music] oh [Music] oh y [Music] the LIF name yesu [Music] so we enjoy this beautiful chabas speeches and inspiration my wife and I we' we were never at a shabas like this this is one of the most beautiful shabus that we ever spent for some of the speeches that made me cry and I literally felt like like uh I was touched one of the most powerful statements that I heard I think was when Rabbi fanger said Balan Mak that we don't realize how lucky that we are that we did we did grow up in that in a house where we knew about guide and so on but it takes coming to a shabas like this to really to get in touch with it one of the beautiful highlights of today was that SCH he's to schy to me we know each other from anyway good old days and um and he did he did uh to make me feel good and make me feel home he did R problem is that he didn't finish R he owes me a we decided we're going to do it right now [Music] okay fore [Music] [Applause] little to hold [Music] I'm in the business where my clients keep getting younger all the time so I'm at the same age as somewhere between by I live in Seagate on Ocean View Avenue and people ask me where I live I live on Ocean View between M and needle so any of you have been seate as the years went by you know the the mature singers they get more mature and they move on sometimes they continue singing sometimes they they don't but the new singers that are coming are younger all the time and I have to try to connect with them I can't write a song for anybody unless I have some kind of a connection some kind of a sh that I see I see the way uh he interprets a piece of davening a piece of learning i i i the whole inspiration for me comes from seeing the connection of the singer to the specific text that he's singing Yi never I never got a song off the shelf from you there was no such thing as taking a song off the shelf I had to go and sit with your seat you used to clean the Shelf every time before you came anyway and if I didn't relate to the words the way Yi did he closed the sitter or the ma whatever it was and said forget it it's not for you wasn't so bad anyway so one of these young kids came to me it was a young kid at the time his name was schy gerner anybody here familiar with the name schamy gerner slamy gerner has the gift of sim he comes into a room literally he makes everybody happy as a matter of fact I was thinking if Disney Walt Disney would have ever designed theid it would have been schamy gner he's a Disney asid so he came to me with his agent his manager and uh I'm sitting there for hours literally trying to connect with him and he's so Le and he's he dances and he's walking he's he's he's walking around and he's making jokes or whatever and a GU n two hours 3 hours and um it's a sad thing when you have to tell somebody who came from far away that I I can't I can't not getting any inspiration and it was m m at the end I'd say if you to try one more time I said me tell me something something unique about your life something that something that something that you want to share so he says well I have this this uh I had a baby we had a baby and uh there was some complication at the birth and as a result which um she developed some some developmental issues um I said what's her name he says her name is Mali okay so what's what's what do you want to tell me about it he says I put her to sleep every night and I sing her a lullabi I said great what's the sing sing to me sing the lullabi he says it's a little thing it's a little phrase that goes over and over I said no problem tell me goes oh you [Music] M [Music] ohy oh [Music] M and what do you do afterwards he says I do it [Music] again and what do do you do then he says I do it again said I understand she falls asleep okay would you mind if I try to develop the theme he says what does that mean I said well let let's let's continue so this this [Music] happened oh [Music] o so if the song would have stopped right there that would have been it and then with the burst of literally the words fell [Music] into for [Music] oh m m [Music] oh sh sh sh [Music] oh [Music] so I'm not really a singer which is obvious but I um I was forced into singing few people asked me how did when did you start singing on an on a on a CD on an album they had a very interesting story we did a um we did a uh show for Z years ago this was like I think the second show for an organization Israel called Z and AR was hired on the condition that we bring a new song and uh he worked on everything and we forgot we forgot about this song and we were on the literally the the concert was in Tel Aviv and uh we were in your at the time you got into a taxi and and we started driving sudden they said o we don't have a song we're coming over there and there's no so quickly I found the word I remember the words RAF this was a ra with a UD at the end a lot of people say ra new but it's really not it's what you and um literally the song was literally written in the taxi on the way to the concert uh he kept on trying to learn it and trying to learn it and he you know at the end at the end we we got to the we got to the show we we we uh played the music to we played the song to Mona Rosen was there and he quickly did some kind of an arrangement and um the last minute as a was time for him to go out we open the second half he says to me y i i can't and he grabs my hand and he brings slaps me out on stage he says you'll sing that second part and this way I will remember it join me in the song [Music] oh even [Music] she [Music] the how oh she [Music] she she she [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] for fore [Music] oh sh sh sh [Music] and then came daddy anybody remember [Music] Daddy ah he burst upon the stage so much excitement so much full of life a lot of fun whenever he was in the room something was always happening microphones were full fall in St stuff is going [Music] on the the [Music] fore for [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] me how do you follow that [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] to the sh for the [Music] face [Music] her to [Applause] [Music] any is there anybody wants to hear a new song [Music] Maybe the friendly crowd you know it's feel [Music] safe so um this is going to be on Mor David's new album is coming out one of these days keeps being pushed [Music] off there is a uh you know we go visit people in the hospitals I mean he does it a lot more than than I do but everybody here on this stage spends considerable amount of time going to visit people that need to be uh and um well sometimes the visits are not easy sometimes they're very hard you know you spend a few hours you come home and and uh somebody that you know and you feel very bad about how you feel you feel that they're that they're hurting and there's not you singing is not it doesn't do it you know so about a year ago there was somebody that we both knew and uh a you man from Israel and um was by him a whole day came home that night and he knocked at my door and he says Yi he sat down by next to the piano and he says just just sing just play play something I had a I had a rough day today he told me the story and we took I took him I don't know what it uh how but there was I think there was a m m base was sitting out there next to the piano and I I opened up up the B and right in front of me with the following words shocking but [Music] it's the Novi is telling the the king I heard your prayers I saw your tears I'm healing you and the following song came [Music] oh you [Music] you might as the feel [Music] as the GL you are you are [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] feel [Music] R in Theo [Music] one more time oh [Music] as [Applause] the to my [Music] the feel [Music] r r in the in the in the RO [Music] should we just close this down or should we continue [Music] what I can't tell cuz the lights are here I don't even know if anybody's in the room every want there you go [Music] so one of the uh one of the organizers this uh of this uh beautiful weekend is a person named Isaac Rose he's the one literally that started me off in music he doesn't know that I'm saying this but he's one of the people he gave me my first break anyway I lived in London at the time and I met this incredibly talented man his name was his name is yigal salak k he's he's getting up there in age now he was the greatest thing in Jewish music performance music the first person that I believe that actually took the took the uh took a group a musical group up on stage to face an audience something like that anyway so um we became friends and um it was purely by by chance that he needed a song he had uh signed a contract with Isaac to do a series of four concerts with London School of Jewish song on that Kaneka but the condition was that he bring new songs and he was running dry at the time you know he was he had a lot of songs but U and he asked me Yi you know it would be great if you if you could write if you could write a song I'd have I wouldn't have any problems you know then you'd write the songs and I'd teach the kids and then we and they says did you ever write a song I said I have some some uh I have some toal like I said that that that I have so it went like this [Music] what did I know about music at that time I just [Music] and he jumped up from the he was sitting on the couch and he jumped up and he ran over to theang and he grabbed a aous Kish I had no idea what he was doing I was I was and he comes to the piano he says do it again but do it slower slower I said what do you mean slower I no no no no slower he didn't know he wanted me to go he wanted to turn it into a waltz till I figured out what he wanted and he just keep playing keep playing and he had and he opened up you know you know about I have a song about you know the [Music] song anyway we're not GNA go so [Music] um you see you guys remember vanani was a tough time I don't know if if the in the kers that you guys went to was terrifying that whole week anyway as a little 5-year-old had to become a Bashan a kin able to memorize a whole Dua right remember that anyway but anyway in the an there's this Rashi and in the Rashi it said these beautiful words floated down and he put the words onto the song All the he [Music] They al [Music] [Applause] [Music] in Al Hy amenu we [Music] we [Music] [Applause] oh me back I [Music] he the he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you you [Music] I got some good news to tell you on his way no he w't any longer it's coming any day so hold on a little bit longer just hold on and you'll see I have some good news to tell you mhia on his way no he won't wait any longer he's coming any day so hold on just a little bit longer cuz every word he promise will be and I'm told you'll see God it's time for you to go goodbye close down the curtain on your CH goodbye you lasted much too long enough is enough It's Time to Say Goodbye so open wide your prison doors goodbye we are your prisoners no more goodbye so don't even try goodbye goodbye goodbye It's Time to Say Goodbye happy days are coming now please listen to me they me singing dancing laughing go cu you wait and see Mir amazing Wonder before finally that magic moment we have all waful there many happy days are coming now why don't you please listen to me we will be singing dancing laughing everybody just you wait and see Mir amazing Wonder like no one's ever seen before finally that magic moment we have all been waiting for no you will be left behind oh no no no no tears will be left to be cry and no power of will send us back again are we are and forever this time if I could write that special me and all the world would sing along with me there's a very special kind of unity only music can bring it would be a song that everyone would know and it wouldn't matter how the words would go it's always been right there inside our heart right from the start all alone it's our song sing with me every we will go [Music] far not I am but who we are we need just to reveal feeling need to try and feel and never are we alone we have each other as our own nothing nothing can divide us for we are sh the sh didn't Inspire us nothing can divide us call this shers this shers has inspired us for We Are Forever [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I may not may not I know him [Music] I may [Music] you [Music] be re youres in you [Applause] [Music] thank you thank you very much thank you very I want to thank the zimra orchestra the whole sh is just absolutely incredible thank you very very much thank you y see for having us in your living room appreciate [Music] it e