Israel Matzav

Overnight music video

Tshuva means return, homecoming. Spiritually to our faith, physically to our land. And that's what has happened in our time, Jews came home to Israel. From more than 100 different countries, Jews of every colour, every culture, speaking almost every language under the sun. This piece of music is part of that story.

The choir you are going to hear are Children from Ethiopia who came to Israel a community, having been separated from the rest of the Jewish people for centuries. But in our time they returned, they came home.

The words were written by King David in Jerusalem 3000 years ago.

The tune comes from Chabad, the Jewish mystics from Eastern Europe.

The soloist is Shlomo Gronich, an Israeli.

And so this one song began in Jerusalem 3000 years ago and is sung in Jerusalem now, joining a melody from Russia to voices from Africa.

That is the story of our people, joined across the centuries and the continents.

And the words come from the Hallel prayer that we say every day of the Sukkot holiday.

Let's go to the videotape.



Real racist 'apartheid state,' aren't we? Is there any other country in the world that regularly unites cultures from so many different parts of the world?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:02 AM