Israel Matzav

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Our feet were standing at the gates of Jerusalem

Here's Mordechai Ben David with Omdos Hayu Ragleinu (Our feet were standing at the gates of Jerusalem).

Let's go to the videotape.

Hang in there folks - Pesach Sheini is coming....

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, Omdos Hayu Ragleinu, overnight music video

Monday, March 24, 2014

And our prayers shall be pleasant to You

Mordchai Ben David, Motty Steinmetz & The Shira Choir With The Aaron Teitelbaum Orchestra & Production, Conducted By Moshe Laufer & His Son Eli Laufer

Featured at the "Wedding of year", On February 19 2014 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel Los Angeles CA. Singing "Vseirov" Compsed By Reb Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz At The Wedding Of His Daughter

Here's V'Seiorev (And our prayers shall be pleasant to You).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, Moshe Laufer, Motty Steinmetz, overnight music video, Shira Choir, Shlomo Rechnitz, V'Seiorev

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Holy Torah

Here's Mordechai Ben David with Torah HaKedosha (The Holy Torah).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video, Torah HaKedosha

Monday, March 10, 2014

Listen my son

Here's Yitzi Rosinger together with the Shira choir singing Shma Bni (Listen my son) (the original of this tune was Mordechai Ben David).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video, Shira Choir, Shma Bni, Yitzi Rosinger

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

For us and for all of Israel

Mordechai Ben David Composed a new song for the Wedding of the Oldest son of Rav Itche Meir Morgenstern, Arranged by Moshe Laufer, Accompanied by the Shira Choir, Child Soloist: Chaim Waldman. It's called Lanu u'l'chol Yisrael (For us and for all of Israel).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Lanu u'l'chol Yisrael, Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video

Friday, January 17, 2014

All tribes of Israel together

The Sabbath on which we read about the Jewish people camping in the desert near Mount Sinai 'as one person with one heart' seems to be an appropriate time for this song. It's Mordechai Ben David with Yachad Shivtei Yisrael (All tribes of Israel together).

Let's go to the videotape.

Shabbat Shalom everyone.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, Sabbath music video, Yachad Shivtei Yisrael

Friday, December 27, 2013

Our feet were standing in your gates Jerusalem

Here's Mordechai Ben David with Omdos Hayu Ragleinu (Our feet were standing in your the gates Jerusalem).

Let's go to the videotape.

Shabbat Shalom everyone.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, Omdos Hayu Ragleinu, Sabbath music video

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Song of Peace

Here's Mordechai Ben David with Shir HaShalom (Song of Peace).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video, Shir HaShalom

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Overnight music video

Here's a brand new song (uploaded last month) from Mordechai Ben David, Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayith (If God Does Not Build the Temple).

Let's go to the videotape.

For those wondering what happened today, I wish I knew. It was a totally insane day and I don't know where it all went.

Labels: Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayith, Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Mordechai Ben David asks for your help to rebuild Seagate

On Sunday, I told you about the Brooklyn neighborhood of Seagate, which was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Here's Mordechai Ben David - a resident of the neighborhood whose house was destroyed - asking for help to rebuild Seagate.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Hurricane Sandy, Mordechai Ben David

Monday, November 05, 2012

Hurricane Sandy destroys the home of one of the greats

One of the hardest hit areas of New York City in last week's Hurricane Sandy was the Seagate neighborhood along the beach in Brooklyn. It's a neighborhood that includes lots of Orthodox Jews.

I have two videos for you. For the second one, I had to kill the sound because I don't listen to music this year.

Let's go to the videotape.

Here's the second video. If there's any sound in it other than music, please let me know.

Let's go to the videotape.

The reason this post is in the 3:00 am hour is because until a couple of weeks ago, I was posting music videos in this slot. Some of those videos were the work of Mordechai Ben David, one of the best known Jewish singers. Unfortunately, his home was one of those destroyed in Seagate.

The Seagate neighborhood in New York City, where many Orthodox Jewish families live, is one of those neighborhoods, where damage and debris could be seen all around.

One well known resident whose home was completely destroyed is hassidic singer Mordechai Ben-David Werdyger, whose basement, where many of his records were stored, was completely flooded, the water washing away decades of recorded material. According to reports the singer's yard was also flooded and his home torn apart by the destructive winds and rushing water.

Residents of Seagate were told to to evacuate their homes Sunday as it was forecasted that the neighborhood, which is in Zone A, would bear the brunt of the storm and was most likely to be hit hard. Most of the residents left, but a small group stayed behind. No one who stayed was injured, which many have deemed miraculous considering the devastation to the neighborhood was mind-boggling. Those who evacuated made their way back they were shocked at what they found.

"We're talking about a scene you can't even comprehend, whole sections of the houses just disappeared, terrible destruction is evident in every corner. People returned to their homes and stood there, stunned and at a loss for words…In my estimate at least 100 homes of ultra-Orthodox families were partially destroyed and will have to be rebuilt completely. Even in the inner streets (further from the sea) where homes were less damaged, the basements and the first floors of the houses were flooded with water and the damage is hard to articulate," said one resident of the neighborhood.

"It will take a long time to rebuild after this grave destruction. A majority of the homes are insured by insurance companies, so at least this detail will not be a problem, but there is no insurance on personal belongings and valuables washed away by the sea's waves. I know of at least two cases of people who had in their libraries ancient, rare and sacred religious books that are very valuable that disappeared along with the bookcase which just flew out from the stormy winds," said the resident.

I hope that MBD is able to reconstruct those records. For what it's worth, I have a picture of him giving a concert in my home which I'd be happy to try to have copied for him.

Labels: Hurricane Sandy, Mordechai Ben David

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Overnight music video

Here's Mordechai Ben David with Omdos Hayu Ragleinu (Our legs were standing).

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, Omdos Hayu Ragleinu, overnight music video

Friday, October 12, 2012

Sabbath music video

Here's Mordechai Ben David with Yachad Shivtei Yisrael (Together the Tribes of Israel), a song that he wrote for the Siyum HaShas (completion of the cycle of the 2,711 folios of the Babylonian Talmud) two months ago.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, Sabbath music video, Yachad Shivtei Yisrael

Friday, October 05, 2012

Overnight music video

This is out of season, but since I have never seen it online before, I figured I would post it. It's Mordechai Ben David, vintage 1989, singing Pharoah in Mitzrayim (Egypt) in Yiddish for HASC.

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Mordechai Ben David, overnight music video, Pharoah in Mizrayim