Between these magical walls and ancient alleys have gethered an international ‘all star cast’ to be “Mekabel Shabbos” in song. ‘Zanvil Weinberger’ curled up in high notes, ‘Naftali Kempah’ in the Yeshivish style, ‘Levi Falkowitz’ took a flight all the way from New York together the king in Kumzitz ‘Dovy Meisels’, when ‘Aron Razel’ also seen with the guitar all the way here.
There’s no better place to perform such a medley heart-stirring and also uplifting oldies, then just to sing it here in “Tzfas”, the city in which the Heilige ‘Reb Shlomo Alkabetz’ who wrote the holy piyut of ‘Lechu Dodi’ lived. These melodies were collected and put together as one by the famed ‘Pinchus Bichler’ of ‘Malchus Choir’, in a very phenomenal performance was born.
In this medley of oldies brought together from old Chassidishe Tzadikim, marches from Dziakov and dance melodies from Vurka, folk tunes by R. Shlomo Carlebach that became an integral part of the life of the piyut ‘Lecha Dodi’, alongside selected artistic pieces that came from Vizhnitz, Yiddish rhymes that were engraved for the piyut sang in Bobov, alongside the beloved ‘Boee Beshulom’ by R’ David Werdyger, from the compositions of R. Yankel Talmud, who concluded the creation.
In the middle, between the arched gates and the typical stone houses such as the Artist Quarter Minyan, the old men and residents of the city fill the floating alleys, as they are watched preparing for ‘Shabbos’ spreading its wings over the city; Its ancient synagogues are being prepared for Shabbos, with a group of Klezmer musicians playing the ‘Lechu Dodi’ piece in the background.
The musical arrangement was completed to perfection by the maestro ‘Yehuda Galili’, the video was directed & edited by ‘Hershy Segal’ number 1 in the Heimish Community in this field, and was produced by ‘Michoel Tzi’. Project Management, Digital PR by Avremi Goldstein, Digital PR in USA by Arrange It Media, MIxed by Chaim Moses, Filmed by Yosef Shlust
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Interesting they didn’t write that one of the songs are the chabad niggun of yifrach beyamov
FYI the tune does not originate from chabad. It’s actually a viznitz nigun, and we effectively took it from them and put it to the words of yifrach beyomov..