Israel Matzav

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Little tree

Here's Abie Rotenberg with Little Tree from the Journeys #4 album.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Journeys IV, Little Tree, overnight music video

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Overnight music video

It's a night for a song about Jerusalem.

Here's Abie Rotenberg's Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) which is mostly in English. Listen to the words closely.

Let's go to the videotape.

Bli ayin hara, I have had the honor, privilege and pleasure to live in Yerushalayim for the last 20.5 years. There is no place in the world like it. I would not want to live anyplace else. Thanks Hashem (God) for granting me the privilege of living here!

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Jerusalem, overnight music video

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Overnight music video

This is a beautiful song that describes the conversation between an angel and the Jewish soul before it is placed into the newborn, and as well before it leaves. Including English lyrics and French translation. It's sung by Abie Rotenberg.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Neshamale, overnight music video

Friday, January 06, 2012

Sabbath music video

Here's Abie Rotenberg and Mordechai Ben David with HaMalach HaGoel (the Angel that redeems), which appears in this week's Torah portion, albeit not quite in this form. The video is from the annual benefit concert for HASC (Hebrew Academy for Special Children) and it's quite moving.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, HaMalach HaGoel, Mordechai Ben David, Sabbath music video

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Overnight music video

Here's Abie Rotenberg with the Man from Vilna (in English).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Man from Vilna, overnight music video

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Overnight music video

Monday was the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of Rav Aharon Kotler zt"l. Rav Aharon Kotler was sent to America by R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky at the height of World War II, where he founded the Lakewood (NJ) yeshiva, which (I believe) is today the largest yeshiva in the United States.

Unlike the poor Torah in this song, Rav Aharon's Torah did not end up in a museum. It is available to thousands of people all over the world today.

I find this song incredibly sad - so much of our heritage was destroyed and is not properly used anymore. But thank God there are more people studying Torah in Israel today than at any time and any place before.

The song is by Abie Rotenberg from the Journeys albums.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Journeys III, overnight music video, R. Aharon Kotler, Torah scroll

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Overnight music video

As many of you know, I'm here in Boston visiting my Dad, who is now in a nursing home and has Alzheimers. Thankfully, Dad was not in the Holocaust, but I can't even begin to tell you how many of his memories he never shared with me. He is no longer capable of doing so. In fact, on Friday, he spoke a full sentence to me other than "yes" or "no" for the first time in about two months. And I think it's because I was here in person and not trying to speak to him by phone - the only way in which I can speak to him from Israel.

So this trip is a bit painful....

Let's go to the videotape. It's by Abie Rothenberg and its sung by Mordechai Ben David and Avraham Fried.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Avraham Fried, Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video, What will become of all the memories

Saturday, June 04, 2011

Sabbath music video

It's time to say Good Shabbos with Abie Rotenberg.

Let's go to the videotape.

Good Shabbos everyone (that's Shabbat Shalom in English :-).

I'll be back tomorrow night Boston time at some point.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, It's time to say Good Shabbos

Friday, February 04, 2011

Sabbath music video

I hope you'll all forgive me if the song I play right as the Sabbath starts will not be a Sabbath song.

I once heard (in fact more than once) from Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai Rubin that someone who attends a young person's funeral does not have to study Musar (a type of study that works on one's character) for a month, because attending that funeral reminds him so vividly of where he comes from and where he is going.

Today was a very difficult day.... I mentioned earlier that I attended a funeral and burial on the Mount of Olives. The father is a dear friend who is also not well. The girl was a friend of my daughter's. His other children and his married children's spouses are friends of my children and my married children's spouses. May God have mercy....

The song is by Abie Rotenberg and it's called What will become of all the memories(English with Hebrew subtitles). Let's go to the videotape.

Shabbat Shalom everyone.

Labels: Abie Rotenberg, Sabbath music video, What will become of all the memories

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Overnight music video

Here's an old favorite of my kids. It's called "The Atheist Convention in LA," and yes, it's in English. It's done by Abie Rotenberg.

Let's go to the videotape.