PART 3: Singing Shabbos with Ari Goldwag (Ep. 215)

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And uh as you know, because of the matzav, meaning uh of course the terrible situation we're in, a number of gedolei Torah have said that what we need to do during this time is mechazek ourselves in uh in our Shabbos. And that's been our series. We've been talking about Shabbos, and uh in fact, our uh producer, Yisrael, uh who by the way, mazel tov, just had a little baby girl, mazel tov, Chana Meira. Shh. Rattled that one off. Pretty good. I can't remember my own grandson. Anyway, uh he should be zocheh to Torah, bent Torah, u'masim tovim. So, he says to me, "I didn't know you had so much to say about Shabbos." And I said, "Apparently, I have a lot to say about everything." And if having a podcast has taught me anything, it's that I can talk for 200 hours without any preparation. But anyway, we just did a two-part series on zemiros, where I basically tried to give a shot in the zemiros so that the words will be a little bit more meaningful to everybody. And uh if you haven't uh seen those, go back now and watch them. They are available wherever you watch your podcast. But that's only half of it. Half of it is of course the words, the other half of it is the niggun. And that's why sometimes you could just sing a niggun. Uh sometimes they'll just do a niggun even without any words. But the zemiros with the niggun tends to be uh very uh powerful. So, as it happens, we are now in the sixth year of the Rabbi Alonaski show. I have during those years have only ever had two repeat guests. My son, Yaakov, who just keeps coming back on. He's a fan favorite of my wife. And uh and uh we uh uh and of course, uh my other son, Moshe Yehuda, and his Woodbury boys have been on twice. That's because uh you know, part of the deceptiveness of this video is that since I am so photogenic, and I am so uh relaxed, people think it's really easy to sit here and look at a camera and talk, and it's not. And so, the first time they were on, they realized they were a little too stiff, so they practiced and came back and really killed it the second time. So, maybe we'll have them on a third time, we'll see. But uh now, this is besides family members, this is the first repeat guest we've ever had, the one and only Ari Goldwag. THANK YOU. THE music sensation, who is mamash ayin hamisgaber both in Torah and in music. Uh I uh I don't know if everybody knows this, but for a while he had a uh a show uh on uh on uh Kol Chai. No, just a show. On Kol Play. Kol Play. It was called Gold Play. Gold Play. Doesn't get much one point, he made an offer. He says, "Just I'll make up Whatever you want, I'll make up a song about it." And that that's not easy to do, because I have not made up uh really any songs that I know of on purpose. So, sometimes I do, and then someone says to me, "Yeah, yeah, that's that's another another song." I I forgot that I had heard it someplace. So, um but actually uh my children uh make up songs, but I I that's not my gift. In fact, I'll tell you uh um an interesting music story. Uh you know Shmuel Kunda? Over the phone? Yes. So, Familiar. when I used to write a chinuch column in the Hamodia, um I did a little review on children's tapes. And uh I was uh I I I viewed them with a critical eye, but I was very impressed with his, you know, uh When Zaidy Was Young series and certain other ones, and I I, you know, Now, I'm writing a column in the Hamodia. I'm not I wasn't anybody uh particular. He calls me up to thank me. He says, "You're the first person who ever acknowledged what I do." Oh, sure. He says, "I sent it to my mother." I can't believe it. Yeah. And he said to me, "My early tapes, I took takeoffs on existing songs. And then I realized I had to make up my own songs, but I didn't know how. So, I davened that Hakadosh Baruch Hu should give me the ability to make up songs. And for the Zaidy Was Young series and some of the other ones, he made up his own songs. And he says, "Hakadosh Baruch Hu just gave me the koach." So, Rabbi Alonaski, there's hope. You could daven. Maybe you could I do, and every now and then start making up songs. You know, I I made up this song. Uh in fact, uh cuz you know, I'll tell you what in a second why I wanted you to do this, but uh you know, I made up this song. I don't know if you've heard it. Shalom aleichem malachei Uh that sounds that sounds familiar. I think it Now, I'm thinking you might have taken it from somewhere. Oh my gosh, I can't imagine why. But anyway, um yeah, so we'll see. It It would If I also could make up songs, considering how unbelievably talented I already am, it just wouldn't be fair to the world, I think. So, you know, everybody not feel comfortable. I would not feel comfortable to be on your show. So, I'll tell you why. So, after I did a two-part on zemiros, I said, "Now, I want to bring in somebody who can actually sing and understand music and make the niggunim meaningful for people." And immediately, I thought of you, and I'll tell you why, because you were on in the first year of the podcast. And um I called you up, and you hadn't really heard about the podcast, but your kids told you to go on, you told me. Which was good enough for me. And uh and we sang a bunch of uh Ari Goldwag hits. And at the end, you said to me, "You never asked me for my kariban." And I and I filed that away. For five years, this has been rattling around inside of my head. So, when I said I need someone to do zemiros, I said, "Ari Goldwag, here's a chance for him to do the the kariban that we missed the last time." So, this is late. This is my first non-family repeat guest on the Rabbi Alonaski show. It's a great honor. Thank you so much. And uh and uh we're uh we have an opportunity that Hashem brought us together at the chasunah. Yeah. So, we could sit together, shmooze, and And I will tell you, obviously, this was min Hashamayim. told I had told Min Hashamayim. I told Yisrael um weeks ago that I was going I wanted to ask you to come on. And then I met you at the chasunah. And so, I said, "Oh, this is great. Can you come on to the podcast?" And you said yes immediately. And uh I was so deeply touched and moved that I almost didn't finish my boreka. Wow. Anyway, Wow. Rabbi. Almost almost I didn't know my words were so touching. If I would have known, I would have been like Aaron Hakodesh and come out with tupim and macholos. So, what's zemiros like in the Goldwag house? How was it when you were growing up? Did you sing zemiros growing up? Yeah. We did sing zemiros growing up. Your dad, the famous sock man. Yes. Murray the sock man. My father, baruch Hashem, my father and my mother both sing well. Really. And my father has a gift that when I do harmony, he doesn't get thrown off. Wow. So, that's that's really good. We did sing. Uh we sang classic tunes. Yeah. Um But you were already writing songs as a kid? Yes. That's correct. I was. I actually did have Menucha V'Simcha that I wrote when I was probably about 13 or 14. Um but we didn't sing those songs at my table. Uh we sang whatever, the regular stuff. Uh the regular I don't even remember what we sang, but we sang the you know, And now, when you were home? Yeah, in my You did traditional ones? Yes. So, I mean, I went to yeshiva for high school in 10th grade. And then we got the more yeshivish tunes like Baruch Kel Elyon, which we'll get to. And the Mizmor L'Dovid, we have to do three of them, so you have to Mizmor L'Dovid, we've been singing Shenker, and then you have to know Mizmor L'Dovid, which is Reb Shmuel Brazil, Hashem Ro'i Lo Va'Yisar, and another one which is from Modzhitz, and Which is a Mizmor L'Dovid. I don't know where that's from. I don't know where that's from. We never sang that one. Isn't it the Bekes Mizmor L'Dovid? Not I'm aware of, but they have they had a curry bone. And the Yeah. That's the famous one. They had a few years before that. They had another one. They had the No. That's the same one. Now, my son Moshiach was with me by um uh Landau, Rabbi Landau. A rav the rebbe Landau. I don't know if you know Landau in Flatbush. Okay. Yeah, as in Landau's shul. That's right. That's right. One of my favorite stories. I was here in Israel. I was speaking around. Anyway, he calls me and says, "Hi, this is Landau." You know, so said, "Uh shalom aleichem. You know, you're from Landau's?" I said, "Okay." "You know, Landau's shul in Flatbush?" I I said, "No, I'm not familiar with it." He goes, "What do you mean? It's it's the biggest shul in Flatbush." I said, "No, I never heard of it." He goes, "Oh." Anyway, "We have a speaker series during the winter. We get in the biggest speakers. You never heard of Landau's?" I said, "No, I'm a Long Island kid, you know, I live in Far Rockaway. I I you know, I didn't really know Brooklyn." "Oh." "Anyway, during the winter we have a we have friend we have You never heard of Landau's?" Anyway, so finally Project Inspire did a Shabbos in Flatbush and they and they sent me to I I Friday night I ate by Landau. And um and uh my son Moshiach who happened to be in America then, he was with me. And um uh And you know, Dveikus is of course was Abie Rotenberg, husband of Lady with and um Label Sharfman. Label Sharfman who was not there. Right. And Well, it switched between um Yeah, the oldest Shwekey Bell. Well, the old Rebbe Shwekey Bell, but before that it was I think his name was Yitzy Weinberger, if I'm not mistaken. The original Deep Voice Yeah. was So, that was not Rebbe. That was Right. So, Rebbe who I've had this discussion Yes. And also Eli Kranzler and Yossi Sonnenblick. Yeah. So, he was he was eating there Friday night with us. And me and him sang that curry bone, which is haunting. It's a haunting curry bone. It's And who's the composer? I think if I'm not mistaken, Boruch Manzelovsky. Was it? Wow. I think. So, um so he uh I do his uh uh Keil Adon when I have when I this Shabbos when I have yahrzeit, so I do his Keil Adon. Nobody knows it. I don't know. Anyway, nobody knows it. I'm the only one in the world who knows it. But he used to sing it in yeshiva. I was in yeshiva with him a couple of times. Okay. But uh it it's haunting. It's a haunting melody. Anyway, so me and me and Rebbe were singing it. And Moshiach was like, you know, singing along, you know. And I said, "Do you understand this is Dveikus who's who's sitting here right now who's singing this song, you know?" So. But anyway, let's uh so um so let's start at the beginning, right? Okay. Shalom Aleichem. Aleichem Shalom. We're already up to uh what do you call it? The um Kiddush Levana. Right. Right. So, uh which Shalom Aleichem? So, I did it before the classic Shalom Aleichem. You don't know where that comes from. It's an old song. It's I think not composed by someone from Really? It's a I think it was composed by somebody conservative and cuz I heard a story that when when Rabbi Shmuel Brazil The advantage of that Shalom Aleichem you can do also you can do each one three times. Right. It goes easier with three times. The other one you have to always keep your head straight. Or do a high part twice even though it doesn't work. I'm on the third time and I'm doing the first part, so I missed something. So, when Rabbi Brazil composed his Shalom Aleichem, I don't remember who it was. I don't know. It's a legend. I don't know. We have to ask Rabbi Brazil, maybe bring him on the show. Um but a kosher person said to him, "Mr. Kayak, we finally have a from from version of this song." But whatever. Does my son still sing this? My son From the time I was a kid, I never heard another Shalom Aleichem besides that one. Yeah. You know, so where are the Shalom Aleichems from 100 years ago? This is one of them. Shalom Aleichem. It's for sure 100 years old. The benching by the way that we do, Boruch Hashem, is also 100 years old. Yeah. Or more. We're singing a lot of old songs. That's why people think that my curry bone is 100 years old. Right. Well, certain ones become timeless and others disappear. Just vanish right away. They were like they were on the scene and then they vanish. But uh uh there was a Shalom Aleichem my friend Shimon first did when I was out in Los Angeles as a bochur. And I I would eat by him Friday night, especially on those late summer ones, you know. And you're like already dropping, you know, if you make late Shabbos, you know. And it was you know, it just moves along a little faster. That's not the one, but who sings that? That's uh Mendy Werdyger. Mendy Werdyger has it on his album Chaverim. Yeah. Shalom Aleichem. It's rather similar to Shalom Aleichem. Shalom Aleichem. Shalom Aleichem. Okay. No. Gosh. See, I don't have a head for for music. That's why if I I forget it, I could I could sit there for for days and I could forget idea. Make up a new Shalom Aleichem and it will be that one. Uh Shalom it it was like it's like almost tuneless. It just like goes back and forth. that when Rabbi Brazil made up his song, it came in Friday night. He was in a rush. He's like, "Shalom Aleichem. Yea yea yea. Shalom Aleichem." We have to we have to confirm all these stories or else So, is there any other Shalom Aleichems that that people actually sing? So, I There's been a lot that's been written. Like you brought the Dveikus one. Right. You have to repeat that that joke. People We're the only ones who are laughing cuz It was I I spoke in Rabbi Sharfman's seminary What was the topic? Uh I'm about platonic relationships. It's the first one of my shiurim that went platinum. So, uh today they talk about it going viral. But back then, you know, something that was a hit went platinum. And uh I I spoke on this topic in the Sharfman seminary and I was teaching in World of David. It was probably like 2000 or 2001. years ago, 34 years ago. 34 years. I'm trying to think cuz when did Dveikus 5 It was Dveikus 5, which came out I think late mid mid-90s, you think? Yeah, it had to be late '90s. But I uh I came back and uh and the next next morning I was giving a shiur and they say, "Hey, Rebbe, I heard you spoke about platonic relationships last night." So, how do you know? He goes, "I got a copy of the tape." By the end of the week, every yeshiva and seminary had a copy of the tape. But but I started off since I was in Rabbi Sharfman's seminary by making fun of him. And uh Naturally. He He afterwards, you know, he he called me up to offer an explanation cuz he was evidently I hit a sore spot there. You know. Cuz when they sing the first song on the album of Dveikus 5 was I said, "This is how we know we're getting old." That's what I said, you know. So, he says to me, "It's all digital today. We could have taken that out. We left it on on purpose cuz we thought it made a nice, you know, uh It sounded natural. It was it was a cappella. It was He thought he thought it gave it a nice uh sound to it, you know. And here I am making fun of him. So, uh chas v'shalom, you know, cuz he is not only a uh beautiful voice and tremendous musical talent, he is a mechanech par excellence. Also, just a wonderful wonderful person. So, uh I throw all that in. Wait, so to your question of Shalom Aleichems, are there any other major Shalom Aleichems that are being sung? I don't know, but I can tell you I wrote I composed a melody for Shalom Aleichem, which Benny Friedman sang. Shalom Aleichem. So, I don't know if people ended up singing it at the Shabbos tables, but it was it was it had its kufa being popular. It's funny. I I don't know I don't know which tunes become you know. Aishes Chayil. Well, I'll say to that point, Yeah. every song I always say this, every song has its mazel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there are songs that have a mazel that wow, they're huge for a few years. Like Racheim, anybody remember Racheim? So, it has it had its mazel. me, Racheim, it's because it's really only one part. Right, it just keeps going. It's just like a sentence. But that's why you know that song. Malchuscha. Malchuscha. It's the same tune, just Right. But I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something. There's the most annoying songs to sing. But I'll tell you something, um just from my experience, like when you make a song where the low part and the high part are kind of similar, uh it like gets stuck in people's heads more. Really? So, cuz it's like and then it starts to grate on you, but it's stuck. It's too late. And sometimes that that works. Sometimes that works really was hot. Sure. It did not survive the test of time. You know? Right, so I think the one of the secrets is to write a a Shabbos zemer. Yeah. Well, yeah, but Well, I mean, it's it's hard we've seen with Shalom Aleichem, look how many Shalom Aleichems there are and how many of them have actually stood the test of time. of time. That's the question. Yeah. Aishes Chayil. So, everybody knows Aishes composed It sounds like it's very old. It's uh '60s, 1960s, '50s, maybe. They sing I don't know. I knew you were going to You got the problem with the trees. I know, but it it doesn't take a lot of energy to sing it. It just sounded like So, it's good on a on a Shabbos. That's the one that we do. I Ishayem first sang it. And and when it's when I'm really tired, that's my go-to Shalom Aleichem. Okay, so that's the Aishes Chayil. So, so with Aishes Chayil, there's not I'm not aware of any other tunes, but I'll tell you what happened. Well, I I don't know. That's That's I don't know it. It was in the song. I think that was before I was born. It had to be like '75. Yeah. That predated my existence. And there's another Aishes Chayil. Well, see what happens is like Shwekey puts out Oh, so they messed up the song. No, that's not going to exactly be for Friday night. That's for like a chasanah when you want to get everyone at the end. So, that's what I was going to say. Like Shwekey has his But um But it's for It's like a wedding song. It's not like It's not a song that you can sing at your Shabbos table. Mhm. Well, that's a maila also. If you never heard anyone say it. If it's easy to sing, if it's easy to khap, it's like when I 30 No, when when was it? I I composed the song Carribean in 1998. Okay? So, the song has only been around for It's only existed for 26 20 Where are we? 25 years. Okay, it's not 100 years old. This is the famous Carribean that we missed the listen. But But that is that is like that the Vegas Carribean, it's haunting. It It gets inside of you. It gets in your guts. You can't You can't forget it. it's so it's very simple. Like I remember when I sang it in when I was at a bar And it has a couple of like little kvetches in there that and that people who aren't good singers can play along with. So, those are the things that people who can't sing can sing. That to me is like the best cuz sometimes you have these really complicated kind of harmonies and stuff that you really need to be So, it's a maila. It's It's a maila to be for a song to be simple and catchy. When I sang this song for the first time, 23 years ago, I was walking around the mirror and I was making my rounds to friends and rebbeim and I I was singing this song to everybody and they were like, "Wow, it's so beautiful." And I remember someone saying, "I know this song." I know this song already. And it was original. But it was just so as I hope It gets in your guts. I didn't steal it from anywhere, but it's but it's so simple that you get it right away. A Shabbos zemer that gets into your kishkes is something that's really unbelievable. But my kids, they didn't call the Ari Goldwag Carribean. They called it the Yeshiva Carribean. This is what they sang in the yeshivas. My you know, my sons would you know, come from yeshiva with this. "Oh, this is the Yeshiva Carribean." So, I mean, it's been it's been becoming מקובל among among the בני ישיבות. That's something special. Yeah. You know. And I'll also say that it's interesting cuz in the state in America and in Europe, the song caught on very strong. Did not catch on as strong in Israel, interestingly, except in the yeshivas where there are Americans in the yeshiva, you generally speaking. Um cuz then the American guys teach it to the Israelis and they're like, "Oh, wow, this is pretty nice. Where is it from?" Um but I actually had a a story that just happened to me. I told you before. Uh on on Friday, I was at a yeshiva of a family who the father, Elisha Lonstein, uh was he fell in Gaza. And terrible story. Six kids. Oldest is 12. Um his wife is really strong. May I make things people. And uh so, I came there to his wife asked me to come in to sing for the kids. The kids know my music very well. And um I sat with them and I was singing I sang a few songs and I I said, "Do you guys know this song Carribean?" And I started singing them Carribean. And the the son, Eitan, was 12. He's like, "I know that song, but I don't I didn't know that you composed the song." He's like, "Yeshivat Yochanan sings this song." So, and then I I actually had heard it before, but I went back to check and and they had It's a There's a version an Israeli version of it singing It's very It has like, you know, a few hundred thousand streams or whatever views on YouTube. So, I uh Yes, it's kind of nice. So, the Israelis made me know they'll pick it up, too. So, uh before we go back to Carribean, uh just kiddush. Kiddush. I grew up with that kiddush. So, did I. Where did that come from? That's Israel West Hempstead. It sounds like a It sounds like a chazzonus piece from somewhere. I have no idea. Yeah. I wish I was a musical historian, but I'm not. But Yeah. But I sing that fast that no one tries to sing along with me. Yeah. I only have sec. On special Shabbos when it's all basically family, I I go out and get a bottle of Kedem kiddush wine. Cuz I can't get Manischewitz heavy Malaga. So, I sit over there with the kiddush wine. the time. When I was growing up, it was Manischewitz heavy Malaga. Extra heavy Malaga. And uh my dad would sing that. And so, uh so, I'll sing it and I drag it out, you know. Wait, but on Yom Tov, it's not the right tune for Yom Tov. No, it's not. What do you do on Friday night when it's Yom Tov? Do you sing zemiros or not? Yeah. I do. Do you? Not if it's the Seder. You could do it, but but we don't cuz we're sort of like pressed for time, but uh but on Yom Tov, sure. Otherwise How many We're already after Shabbos. So I split time again to do it. How many uh uh can you sing? You know what I mean? And then after a while it just starts to grate on you, you know? And uh especially at the end of like Sukkos. And you're just like, no, no. It's like Asher Bara at the end of Sheva Brachos like you just had enough. But uh so that's the Kiddush, right? Okay. Okay, Kiddush, yes. Um uh Okay, Kiddush, yes. Yeah, okay. Uh we're going in order. Kol Mekadesh vi Yes. Now, I only know one niggun. Kol Mekadesh vi Right? That's the only one I know. Now, my wife's It's a Chassidishe niggun. It is? Composed by Suki Berry's father-in-law. Really? so. I saw that in an in an article. They were singing Kol Mekadesh vi or No, so my wife's uncle who is Chazan Klein, who was uh Oh, Shalom. He was in Toronto for many years. And um uh he put out a tape on zemiros, which I can't find. But I remember when he says Kol Mekadesh, there's only one. I start singing, he goes, "No, Kol Mekadesh has a nusach." Nusach? That's what he said. There's a There's a standard tune. And I know that um whenever I say something like this, I'm going to get a bunch of comments from people who will tell me where it is and how to find it, etc. So I'm throwing it out there, but he says there's a nusach to Kol Mekadesh that like I said, I wanted to listen to the tape, and of course I misplaced it, and uh and I I want to be able to hear it. So uh but he says, "No, there's a traditional Kol Mekadesh that everyone sings." Okay. But I don't know what it is. Well, we'll have it in the links in the description. Menucha Vesimcha. So let's let's uh let's There's a lot of those. Let's deal with the elephant in the room. There's a lot of those. Carlebach. You sing Carlebach? Like generally? You ask me like a general question? Yes. I I do. Cuz there are those people who uh about Carlebach. I'm sorry to say I'm not that familiar. Uh I don't even know what the question is from. Um Baruch David Simon told me he met somebody who was the who was the person in this story that there were these yeshiva guys in some pizza place. You know the story? Yes. And Carlebach comes over, and he says, "Oh, my holy brothers." And they said, "You're not my brother. You You're You're not You're You're not a Yid. You don't keep Torah. You don't keep mitzvos. You hug women. You do this." So he says, "If I do teshuvah will you will you let me sit with you?" They said, "Yeah." And he sits down in the corner like this. You know, for I don't know how long it was. And he says, "Okay, I'll never do it again." And they eat together, and then the next day he was on a plane Yes. That's the story, yes. So he says I He gave me the number of the kid, who of course I never called cuz I misplaced it. It's right next to the tape. It's right next to the tape. Oh my god. Anyway, so um uh my mother used to say to me, "You'd lose your head if it wasn't attached." Anyway. So um so You know what the problem with that tune is? What? It doesn't end. That's all the Carlebach song. That was a It just keeps going. I don't KNOW HOW TO END IT. That's another guy in Yes, that's that's This is like a lesson in like goingness in in creating songs. If you create a song that doesn't end so then once again you get it they're stuck with you. They're stuck with your song. It can't stop. I'll tell you an interesting thing that uh when I was a kid, I was born 1959, so we used to have what were called 45 RPM records. I heard of those. Right? And you put them on and We didn't have that. And you'd listen to them, and when they ended, they faded out. Okay. Like Jewish songs always had an ending. Yeah? But they would just slowly fade out. And they said the reason is because then you feel like you didn't finish the song, and you put it on again. So I feel like a Carlebach niggun is the same way. It just It just keeps going. Yeah, and I have a friend uh fellow composer who I've used some of his songs in my albums, who always said to me, "Better to make your song short, and they have to go back and hear it again if they want to than to make it long, and they have they're going to skip it." Mhm. So there you are. So Menucha Vesimcha That is of course the Menucha Vesimcha. Where is that tune from? I have no idea. The The problem with that song is I have to really enjoy that song. It puts you right to sleep. Especially on a short Friday when you're like tired. Well, it's cuz you already had the soup. You had the matzah balls. if you sing this when they serve the soup No, even before they'll serve the soup and you'll tumble over and drown. It just so It's just like a It's just It's It has sort of a a lullaby quality to it. And you could just start it, and you see everyone go And then there's Miami Then there's Miami Boys Choir Menucha Vesimcha. Yom Shabbos Were you there when they did that one? Well, I'll tell you a little story about the song. I came into the choir in 1988. Okay? And they had just put They had put out a whole bunch of albums in the early '80s, V'seya'anu B'simcha and Kol Yisrael B'yachad, and Shabbos B'Yerushalayim. And walking through the streets, I feel my face. So they had put out one of the albums had this Menucha Vesimcha on it, and we had to learn the harmony. And I must say I was recalcitrant in my duties as a choir boy. Great word. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hard to work into a conversation. That's really good, right? I don't want everyone to know what I actually just said. That's why I said it that So So I didn't learn the harmony, and he saw me going He's like, "Did you Did you Did you learn that?" I'm like, "No." And he started crying. I was 9 years old. Really? Yeah. Those were Those were I I never I never came to a practice without having learned the harmony after that. It was like It's also a very beautiful tune. Yeah, so that's really pretty. That's the one that we do on Friday night usually. When I'm tired and I do my fast tunes No, that's that's Carlebach. I'm saying that's fast. That's about That doesn't end. That's why I came to that one. No, I do the other perek. Like um Uh I don't know if it's a perek. Uh we call it the carnival one. Okay, I'll do it. Okay, I'll do We have to have Shemei So it goes very fast. I don't know that one. We need to You don't know it? No, we need to have a Friday night together. Oh my gosh. You know what was the last time that we had a Friday night together? Remember the first Friday night we had together? Do you remember the first time? I I called up We had just moved in to Agassi number 54. And I opened up the phone book, and I found Rabbi Arlansky's name, and I said, "Hi, Rabbi Rabbi Arlansky, this is I'm a new on the block. I was wondering if you had guests. My name is Ari Goldwag." Do you remember the story? Uh I don't remember you uh going to those lengths of Oh, yeah, we were desperate. It was I just remember you'd come, and I would always hack you about Jewish music. You were like, "You want to say D'vei Torah." And I was like, "Yeah, BUT WHAT ABOUT SHWEKEY?" OKAY. RECALL THAT. I DO recall that. Is there So Is there any other Menucha? I don't know I'm not I'm trying to think. Oh, I have a Menucha Vesimcha. Do you? Which is on my album Am Echad which I happen to know that Nachum Segal likes very much and plays. Um it goes I'm skipping to the bottom part. Shemei Shamayim Eretz V'yamim Kol Tzva'av Umarom Y'varechu El Adonai And I saw someone did a mashup between this song and my song. And Ethan Ethan Katz's um Ethan Katz has a song. And these two songs like they they're like a space for each other. Well, the the low part is is um I'm losing it. It's uh No, the high part is again and the low part is um So, the his low part matches like sits like they're it's not they're not the songs are not actually similar, but the the melody they they're like harmonies of each other. So, anyway. My Adidus. My Adidus. There's the classic. Is that the one you had in mind? Yes. Now, the problem with that is first of all, my Adidus takes forever to learn. And there's also like a missing bar or something so everyone messes it up. Yeah. So, it just takes too long. Now, when I was in Yeshiva in Kaptzai, they had a My Adidus that they said goes back to Slabodka. That's what they said when I was there and they said that the My Adidus is sang in Musar Yeshivas. Right? They sang You'll hear the tune and you'll understand. You know they sang in the Vartic? You know they sang in the Vartic? Stick Musar. You know they sang in the Vartic? So, uh Baruch Chait recorded this on one of his Kol Salonika's. Okay. Now, here's the hard part. They have to stick a lot of words in. So, luckily the slow part is slow enough that you can save up your breath for when you have to stick 25 words into it. And the whole Yeshiva the whole Yeshiva would sing this together? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, again. And everyone fit the words in the same exact way or everyone was doing it their own You were so busy concentrating on making sure you got it right that you couldn't listen to them. Yeah, and it's something that you can slow slow it down a little bit for people. But there's no fun in that. Cuz once you get it down Although we're not moving on yet. So, I I also have a song with you you you brought together Or is there another My Adidus? I composed the song for My Adidus which Benny Friedman actually sings and on my a cappella albums we spoke about a cappella once. Yes. So, we actually do a duet and my son Moshe Dovid is also in that song. It's beautiful. So, there's actually It's beautiful. Yeah, Baruch Hashem. Thank you. So, there's actually a one? So, Benny sing sang it originally. There's a there's film of me and Benny doing a concert together in Baltimore where we go through My Korban and this My Adidus and Shalom Aleichem. And um if you want to learn you can go there or just listen over and over to what I just sang. I think it's the the alter the second is definitely the more better option. Okay. The My Yofis I don't know anything about it. Me either, right? That's what I said. There's something there's also something missing from this bench. You're missing um uh Yom Shabbos Kodesh. No, it's at the end. And this? I'll get you there, don't worry. Well, wow, this one has a lot. I told you, that's why I took this bench. This is This is from my son's wedding. Okay. All right. I don't know are These are the most mirrors that I've heard. My Yofis Tzum Man Ach Ani. Yom Shabbos Kodesh? Nope. Nope, me either. Okay. Korban. Okay, we we we know that. I think we beat beat this one. Well, did we do the Dveikus one? You're doing it again. Speaking of long. I guess so at the end of the meal you're allowed to do the Shluff the Shluff. I I find that is a haunting melody. That's right. It's very haunting. And I will never forget I was at an Shabbos Friday night meal in the JLE in London. And they sat me with a group of young people and they put every like a Rabbi at each table etc. The idea being that the people would talk to them. Instead, they were much more interested in doing it themselves and I was sitting there by myself, you know, counting my fillings with my tongue. Well, what kind of stuff did you talk to them? And and one point I closed my eyes and I sang this song quietly to myself cuz to me Zimirot says has a lot of power. Uh even this day when I became Shomer Shabbos my parents were not Shomer Shabbos. They would go to work. And I would eat by myself and sing Zimirot to myself. So, they have a very special meaning for me. Anyway, so I sing this quietly to myself and I open my eyes everyone's staring at me. And I was like um sorry, did I you know, did I Yeah, so they said that was beautiful. That was haunting. I never heard anything like that. So, that made an impression on me of of that tune. Well, there's a few actually there's a few other ones I won't mention. What's the classic? Korban. That's when you're in the you know, your old mode, you know. That's like a My father used to sing that one. That was the old one. You don't know where that comes from. No way. That's an old one. It's an oldie. It's at least as old as mine. Then there's the Pirchei what? Go ahead, but I'm tired and I do that fast and good. That's how the meal began. That's his tune. Is it? That's in Miami? Well, it's it's Toronto Pirchei, but that's his tune. Yeah, it's it's you're right. It's it's you're right. Keep things going. So, there's there's an there's a Reggish Korban. Uh Rabbi Brazil. No. I Korban And there's an old MBD Korban. How's it going? I got to pull it out. Um I'm thinking of this one. That's also Dveikus. That Maybe that's the Bachman's Alski one. Uh love the giver this simcha just That's all the same. That's the biggest fight. I call you all I love they all my I love you my God. Melech Malchei Yisrael Melech Malchei Yisrael I've tried this in my Shabbos table a few times, but people nobody knows it so No, forget about whether they know it or not. They it's it's It's a little complicated. It's a little complicated. It's hard to sing. Only we we we forgot the classic album. K'var Ribon Olam La la la la la la la la la la la la la V'chol Ha'olam La la la la la la la la I love you my I love you my Melech Malchei Yisrael Ay ay ay ay ay Are there Chassidish K'var Ribons? I'm sure there are. I have to get a Chassid on. Cuz I don't You know, it's like I was making fun once all the Litvish tunes, right? I I was I was making fun once of the um how annoying the Harachaman Yakam Lanu was cuz that was in the fall, I guess. You know? Harachaman Yakam Lanu that's K'var Ribon Yakam Lanu And so guys David Anavales Harachaman Yakam Lanu and so guys David Anavales Harachaman Yakam Yakam is like Malchus you know? And you know so That's why it's still around. of my one of my Chassidish Rubilovsky crazies he says to me, "What are you talking about?" He says There's a whole bunch of Chassidish in Yiddish. And he sent me a recording of one and I I didn't even know. So this whole world is a mystery to me, you know? Even though uh even though my my grandfather comes from Vengrov and somebody told me the whole town was Ger. So Kintz einer Ger Chassid could be. Okay, I'm Chortkov. My my my I think both my grandparents my father's parents were both Chassidish Chortkov. I don't know. My wife's family is Chassidish from all sides. They're everybody's friend of mine said, "Of course of course it's obviously Chassidish blood if you're making up songs." So uh yeah, so uh so I don't know the other but what are the K'var Ribons are there? There's the uh well there's the NBD one new. It goes um K'var Ribon Olam V'chol Ha'olam I love you my I love you my Melech Malchei Yisrael I love That was from this one Shabbos. You know? It's on uh I don't want to think I'd rather pray 1970s I even though it's before my time I know I know I know it. Wow. Yeah, that was a good K'var Ribon. Yeah, it's good. But you don't hear people singing it. I sing it sometimes. Come to my house see that's why you should come to my house. Why don't you come to your house? Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim Tzama Nafshi Right, that's the classic. And then uh Shmuel Brazil has Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim The night same same kind of The night night He has a whole album of Shabbos songs. I think it's Regesh Volume 7. 10. What is it? Two? Well He has two Shabbos albums. That's right. That's right. So that's the classic. Tzama Nafshi then there's uh um we call it the Russian one here. Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim L'Elokim Tzama Nafshi Hashem Chassinu Ay ay ay Hey! Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim L'Elokim Hey! Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim Hey! This one is like you have to do a Kazatzka to it. I love this song. Who made up this song Rabbi? I don't know where it came from. You made it up. I didn't make up nothing. I can't. But then we had what we called the Irish one. Now I know I was singing this back in the 1980s. So I don't know where it came from. We used to call it the Irish one. Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim L'Elokim Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim This sounds very Irish. Sounds very Hashem Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim Hey hey! L'Elokim whether it's Russian or Irish. This is like a feels like a drinking song. You should have a mug in your hand, you know? So when I'm when I'm like when I do that uh L'Elokim and I do the K'var Ribon I do that Tzama Nafshi. You like to have a like Do the theme. Do the theme. Do the theme. Do the theme. Do the theme. Do the theme. Do the theme. If I'm if I'm doing like you know K'var Ribon Olam you know and So then I'll do the Tzama Nafshi. I'll stick with the classics. Theme yeah. Theme. Tzama Nafshi Tzama Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim O Tzama Tzama Nafshi L'Elokim L'Elokim O Tzama Is this a classic? I think so. I don't we never sang it when I was in shul. Is there any others? Well that's the That's all that I know. Okay. Now I only know one Yom Zeh L'Yisrael. Yom Zeh L'Yisrael My kids my kids go crazy when I sing this one. They they go crazy. No, cuz I never do it with that much enthusiasm. Yom Zeh L'Yisrael When you do this Tzama Nafshi is like right before benching. You know what I'm saying? That's why it's like I go in order. You do the order of this one? Yeah. So you sing Tzama Nafshi long before benching. Yeah. Oh my. Yom Zeh L'Yisrael Ay Rav Simcha Ay Rav Simcha Shabbos Menucha Yom Zeh L'Yisrael Ay Rav Simcha Shabbos Shabbos Menucha I just said we do it first. I understand. That's why when I get to the first line and my crowd is in open rebellion. This song doesn't have a high part. It's the same day. No, this is the high part. Yom Zeh L'Yisrael You're doing a little faster so now it's the high part. So that's the divine If anyone's still awake from that first one they'll be with these words as well. Tzvi Sabikudim B'maamad Har Sinai it's on one of my a cappella albums. Uh I actually did it There's a young man in uh young man in in the UK named Eitan Freilich who sang this song. He uh sang the song but we did it together also on a cappella. Tzvi Sabikudim B'maamad Har Sinai Shabbos U'moadim L'simcha B'chol Shanah L'aroch L'fanav Ma'aseh S'aruchah Shabbos Shabbos Menucha O Yom Zeh L'Yisrael O Yom L'simcha O Yom Rav Simcha Shabbos Menucha Yom Zeh L'Yisrael O Yom L'simcha It's very pretty. Do you know anyone who does it? I do it. You do it for real? Yeah. Good. Yeah. All right. I don't know anybody else. Actually, no, it's not true. I met somebody on the street. I usually on Shabbos I go for a little shpitzir on Shabbos afternoon. And randomly people come over to me and say all kinds of things. But this family came over to me and said, "Oh, we love all your songs and we sing your Yim Same Yisrael." Like, "You do?" Cool. Okay. Okay, you asked who does it every I don't do it. I don't really know it so well. I know the tune, but I don't know anybody actually singing it. This is Chassidish, that's why you don't know it. All right, so are there any famous Chassidisha singers out there who would like to be on the Rabbi Orlansky Show and do some Chassidish niggunim to help us Chassidisha impaired people our our our vistas. horizons and vistas. Good. Sorry. Okay. We're up to the day. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. Torah and Simcha, ready to go. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. Knowledge and wisdom will help you grow. Lots of fun in every episode, and we don't have to rhyme. No, we don't. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. on rabbiorlansky.com Torah anytime, YouTube and more. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. Torah and Simcha, ready to go. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. Till next time, till we meet again. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show. It's the Rabbi Orlansky Show.