I TRIED giving it up

Nochi put on a kippah to make the bracha. Kippah came back off. Is that in some ways a microcosm of your life? Kippah on, off, on. >> I tried being a secular Israeli in Tel Aviv for 2 years. I tried and [music] I couldn't. And after the war it came back like a tsunami. I don't know if it's looking up [music] to Hashem and saying help. I don't know if it's Friday night before going into Gaza singing Lecha Dodi with a bunch of guys. I felt my Jewish identity or whatever you call it was shouting. I think it went to sleep for many years. >> [music] >> It took me 37 years to feel that the most important things in my life is the ability to sing on Friday night Lecha Dodi as an Israeli, but also as a Jew to sing proudly Hatikvah. And if you don't know one of those songs and you can't relate to them or sing them, I feel that you're missing something as a Jew.