RE: Shmuel Brazil; shalosh-seudos in Far Rockaway

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <yiddish...>]

Been off e-mail for many many months...

>Vi zenen di heylige teg?...

This is an old Pirchei nigun - either on their extraordinary first or 
second recording.
If I can't get to shul, I put that recording on - it's better than any shul 
I have ever gone to.  Has had the same transcending effect on me for the 
last 31 years.


Reyzl

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From:  Jack Falk (E-mail) [SMTP:jackfalk (at) teleport(dot)com]
Sent:  Monday, October 07, 2002 4:26 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Shmuel Brazil; shalosh-seudos in Far Rockaway

Khaverim,

I want to echo Robert Cohen's comments about Rabbi Shmuel Brazil.
I was privileged to hear Rabbi Brazil give an erev Shabbos drash
at Yeshiva Sh'or Yoshuv (in Far Rockaway) just before Yom Kippur.
His comments were inspiring, humbling, and deeply spiritual -
entirely appropriate to the season.  I'm grateful for having
met him in this context.

The next day, my son brought me to his rebbe's tish for shalosh
seudos, where I heard a beautiful nign (in 3/4) that begins azoy:

 Vi zenen di heylige teg?
 Zey zenen avekgegangen.
 Me ken zey nisht haltn,
 Nor mit ayzerne klangen.

Does this yontefdike musar-nign sound familiar to anyone?  There
were about five more verses, although the combination of Shabbos
wine, no pencils, and a meager memory make it hard for me to
recall exactly.

Yankl


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