RebbeSoul

This is the story behind "Moishele's Nigun,"the song which first appeared on the album, Fringe Of Blue and most recently on From Another World.  It is a true story from Vienna during WW2.  Moishele is the affectionate term for the…

I'm working with a wonderful, Yemenite singer in Israel, Shlomit Levi, pictured left.  These songs are not in Hebrew but in Yemenite, occasionally with some other language thrown in.  Yemenite is kind of a dialect of Arabic, spoken by the…

Amuka, in northern Israel, is the gravesite of Rabbi Yonathan ben Uziel, one of the greatest students of Rabbi Hillel from 2000 years ago. I was there with three friends. An Ashkenazi, an Ethiopian, and Pincus, dressed in a dusty,…

When I got to Israel, I played a lot of weddings as a guitarist/sideman, particularly in Jerusalem. Often the material consisted of Reb Shlomo's songs and that's how I learned many of them. One of the most popular was "Adir…

I played in Jerusalem Wednesday night at my CD release party. Wonderful night and I'll write about that another time. What I want to relate now is what happened afterward in the "wee hours of morn!" I went to the…

I first heard Im Eshkachech in Jerusalem on Tisha B'Av. There were a group of people sitting on the floor singing it slowly, nigun style - with no words. It sounded hauntingly beautiful. Years later, I was at a…

I just played my final concert in Poland on this tour last night, December 9th, the last night of Chanukah at the famous, old yeshiva in Lublin. Here's an old photo of it which is displayed in the yeshiva's museum.

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I spent Shabbat in Kracow. Historic sites, cafes, etc. Went to services in a 2 different, old and now restored synagogues, one being the famous Roma synagogue and the other, the main temple next to the brand new JCC. The…

The war and the holocaust are more than just old memories here in Poland. People talk about them all the time and how both shaped life here today. One hears things like, "This building has a new facade because the…

I'm about to play a series of concerts in Europe. As I prepare, I thought of a question often asked and that is where the name, RebbeSoul comes from.

In the early 90s, I was just getting acquainted Jewish lore.…