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Reacting to myself singing as a kid for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin
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Benny Friedman's reaction to seeing himself sing as a bachur in Postville for Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, and discussion of his relationship with uncle Avraham Fried,
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when I was a kid in Postville
and there's video documentation to prove
this
I didn't have a good voice really I just
love to sing
I wouldn't stop saying I wouldn't
looking at the footage
I didn't have a good voice I didn't have
a good voice but I I love music I love
singing
and
so I just did it all the time and there
were people there for example
who who noticed it and encouraged me to
his uh just to be clear to the viewers
you didn't you grew up in Minneapolis
you went to London Yeshiva in post
office yeah okay I was a postal for
three years
and I would sing at the Shabbos table at
the robotkin house I sang at the malava
malkus that he had every matisy Shabbos
I sang at the uh at the lagbo Emer
events that he was always pushing me to
sing
and looking at the footage going how did
he put up with it
[Music]
we just sang together now we just did a
beautiful shabbaton where you're saying
it's beautiful anyway
um
so no I don't think I I never I never
was bothered by the fact that I have
this name associated you know the name
Association
um
you know could be worse
uh you didn't bother you okay you didn't
bother me at all and people say you know
you sound like your uncle are you
serious I sound like my uncle that's the
highest compliment and it's the highest
compliment not it's not even for me
if you told anybody in Jewish music you
know you sound like avram freed you go
no kidding how about that that's a
fantastic compliment okay