This is the new favourite song of my three young children. They ask for it on the way to daycare / school every Friday morning to prepare for Shabbos ❤
This is beautiful. I've always loved this song. That's Lenny Solomon himself singing the main verses, along with the Maccabeats. And I don't know if they managed to use the same shul for the new recording as was used in the old video, but if not it's very similar. Thanks for doing this and posting this, guys!
Beautiful! I haven't had a chance to listen to Shlockapella yet and this video blew me away! Lenny, never forget how many people you have touched and inspired and how you continue to do so!!!
Hi Dave, We walked to the back of the hardware store where there was a Synagogue. The Halacha is you can’t be within six feet of fertilizer or the smell of it. So this Synagogue was fine!
Dave Crystal perhaps but consider this! Song came out in 1987. First video in 1990, video with the maccabeats in 2015. And in 33 years you are the first to bring this up! Lol
@@Shlockrock1 Nu, what can I do I am a stickler for detail. Also am a litvak, if I was a chasid I would shlep so much nachas from the fact that they were maseyras nefesh for a minyan I wouldn't have even noticed that fertalizer sign.
Avraham Klein Since you asked.... We were sitting in Rabbi Zvi Belsky's 11th grade shiur at the Yeshiva of the South in Memphis, TN. I remember it was a Friday morning in 1982, and he was telling us a story about segregated candy counters at the bus stations while he was growing up in the South. He said, I stepped off the bus in Tuscumbia, Alabama...." I didn't hear the rest of his story, as that line got me thinking about a Jewish person travelling in the deep south. I changed the city from Tuscumbia to Mobile so I could set the scene, "The sun was slowly setting on the bay" (It's also a larger city, and more likely to have a minyan). The entire song was in my head by Shabbos afternoon. On Sunday I recorded a homemade demo using two tape recorders with my fiddle, guitar, and vocals, and I mailed it to Lenny. The rest is history.
This is an extraordinarily beautiful vocal performance, but the message makes me fear for the future of humankind. Seriously, this guy wrote a song about walking through a major city thinking he couldn't possibly make a friend out of over 190,000 people unless he happened to share to share religious beliefs or genetic heritage with someone. Sorry, the song is beautiful, but the message is disgusting. This is a song about bigotry and needless tribalism. That sounds amazing.
@thelogician9879, it's nice that you enjoyed the musical quality of the video but I think you missed the central point of the video. In Judaism, there are certain religious obligations, public prayer among them, that can only be fulfilled fully with a quorum of ten. This song tells the story of an aging, shrinking Jewish community where the 10th member of the congregation recently passed away so they can no longer pray with a quorum. A stranger appears in town who is upset because he doesn't expect to be able to fulfill the religious obligations of public prayer on Shabbos, the Sabbath, a day that is meant to be spent with family and community. So it's a happy surprise for both the members of the hardware store congregation and the traveler as well when they meet up and are able to pray with a quorum. The song has nothing at all to do with who you can be friends with.
@benploni7492 You're not adding hidden meaning to the song, you are merely repeating its overt message. My wife, who is Jewish, made sure I knew the whole backstory, as if that explains away the pointless bigotry and tribalism. Until I pointed out that the regressive clowns who made up the stupid rule also wouldn't let HER be the tenth person either. Because the Abrahamic religions are appallingly backward, immoral, and damaging to humankind.
@@benploni7492 It's a depressingly pointless story of a group so insular and tribal that they can't scare up ten people to participate in their sad little club. I'm well aware of the backstory on that ritual meant specifically to reinforce who your "real" friends are and AREN'T. My wife grew up ethnically part of that group, and she doesn't have time for the ignorant barbarians who made up that religion either. It is pretty hilarious that they created their god in their own image; angry, vengeful, violent, childish, not too bright and constantly getting tricked by people who shouldn't be able to trick a god. It's so easy for modern people to be far better than that religion and the god depicted in it. You can too. Really, it's no problem at all.
@@benploni7492 Religion: self-imposed, nonsensical rules that make life harder. Awesome! Glorious. Like the Rube Goldberg machines to dial a phone on Saturday and all the other pointless nonsense.
..Now that was 20 years ago... and another 20 years ago... Totally gorgeous, Lenny.
Shlock Rock will Rock for all our future generations! We love you Lenny!
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This is the new favourite song of my three young children. They ask for it on the way to daycare / school every Friday morning to prepare for Shabbos ❤
Gorgeous and delightful! Shlock Rock and the Maccabeats -- an unbeatable combination. Thanks, Lenny!
Always LOVED this song!
This is beautiful. I've always loved this song. That's Lenny Solomon himself singing the main verses, along with the Maccabeats. And I don't know if they managed to use the same shul for the new recording as was used in the old video, but if not it's very similar. Thanks for doing this and posting this, guys!
I'll look at the new one to see. This is my Shul before the restoration.
Beautiful! I haven't had a chance to listen to Shlockapella yet and this video blew me away! Lenny, never forget how many people you have touched and inspired and how you continue to do so!!!
Love Love Love :D
I'm not practicing but I still love your music, and this is by far my favorite!
god bless you maccbeats
I like that the Hardware Store gave up space for the Minyan.
Love it! May you all go from strength to strength! ✡ ✡ 💓 💓 ✡ ✡
nice!
Sorry I thought the halacha is you can not daven in the same room as fertalizer.
Hi Dave,
We walked to the back of the hardware store where there was a Synagogue. The Halacha is you can’t be within six feet of fertilizer or the smell of it. So this Synagogue was fine!
@@Shlockrock1Ok, fair enough, you are technically correct. But the optics just look bad.
Dave Crystal perhaps but consider this! Song came out in 1987. First video in 1990, video with the maccabeats in 2015. And in 33 years you are the first to bring this up! Lol
@@Shlockrock1 Nu, what can I do I am a stickler for detail. Also am a litvak, if I was a chasid I would shlep so much nachas from the fact that they were maseyras nefesh for a minyan I wouldn't have even noticed that fertalizer sign.
קידוש שם שמיים
Does anyone know if this song is based on any particular story that happened?
Avraham Klein Since you asked.... We were sitting in Rabbi Zvi Belsky's 11th grade shiur at the Yeshiva of the South in Memphis, TN. I remember it was a Friday morning in 1982, and he was telling us a story about segregated candy counters at the bus stations while he was growing up in the South.
He said, I stepped off the bus in Tuscumbia, Alabama...." I didn't hear the rest of his story, as that line got me thinking about a Jewish person travelling in the deep south. I changed the city from Tuscumbia to Mobile so I could set the scene, "The sun was slowly setting on the bay" (It's also a larger city, and more likely to have a minyan). The entire song was in my head by Shabbos afternoon. On Sunday I recorded a homemade demo using two tape recorders with my fiddle, guitar, and vocals, and I mailed it to Lenny. The rest is history.
fiddlinvic Nice vid Victor! Yeshiva of the South ruled!
Andrew Wahl Andy! Great to see you. Yes, it certainly did.
יום עצמאות שמייח
This is an extraordinarily beautiful vocal performance, but the message makes me fear for the future of humankind. Seriously, this guy wrote a song about walking through a major city thinking he couldn't possibly make a friend out of over 190,000 people unless he happened to share to share religious beliefs or genetic heritage with someone. Sorry, the song is beautiful, but the message is disgusting. This is a song about bigotry and needless tribalism. That sounds amazing.
@thelogician9879, it's nice that you enjoyed the musical quality of the video but I think you missed the central point of the video. In Judaism, there are certain religious obligations, public prayer among them, that can only be fulfilled fully with a quorum of ten. This song tells the story of an aging, shrinking Jewish community where the 10th member of the congregation recently passed away so they can no longer pray with a quorum. A stranger appears in town who is upset because he doesn't expect to be able to fulfill the religious obligations of public prayer on Shabbos, the Sabbath, a day that is meant to be spent with family and community. So it's a happy surprise for both the members of the hardware store congregation and the traveler as well when they meet up and are able to pray with a quorum.
The song has nothing at all to do with who you can be friends with.
@benploni7492 You're not adding hidden meaning to the song, you are merely repeating its overt message.
My wife, who is Jewish, made sure I knew the whole backstory, as if that explains away the pointless bigotry and tribalism. Until I pointed out that the regressive clowns who made up the stupid rule also wouldn't let HER be the tenth person either. Because the Abrahamic religions are appallingly backward, immoral, and damaging to humankind.
@@benploni7492 It's a depressingly pointless story of a group so insular and tribal that they can't scare up ten people to participate in their sad little club. I'm well aware of the backstory on that ritual meant specifically to reinforce who your "real" friends are and AREN'T. My wife grew up ethnically part of that group, and she doesn't have time for the ignorant barbarians who made up that religion either. It is pretty hilarious that they created their god in their own image; angry, vengeful, violent, childish, not too bright and constantly getting tricked by people who shouldn't be able to trick a god. It's so easy for modern people to be far better than that religion and the god depicted in it. You can too. Really, it's no problem at all.
@@benploni7492 Religion: self-imposed, nonsensical rules that make life harder. Awesome! Glorious. Like the Rube Goldberg machines to dial a phone on Saturday and all the other pointless nonsense.