TYH Nation Presents
Back to Mount Sinai
Joey Newcomb
A new song inspired by Reb Shlomo’s vision, in honor of his 31st Yartzheit
In his shul hung a sign. A call to return to a Yidishkeit filled with deep connection to Hashem and to ourselves. A Yidishkeit bursting with meaning and alive — every moment a Har Sinai experience “Hayom La’asosam”
In tribute to Reb Shlomo, Thank You Hashem is proud to present this niggun along with the full text of this revolutionary vision that was displayed on the walls of Reb Shlomo’s shul.
To Jewish parents and children all over the world:
We have to take our children back to Mount Sinai
out of exile and slavery to a decaying civilization
out of the prisons of their own homes and their own Jewish
education and bring them back to Mount Sinai, where
G-d’s word is real and shining, where they learn what they
knew all the time. Where they hear what they heard a long
time ago on Mount Sinai, in Jerusalem, in Auschwitz,
on the streets of the world, on lonely nights and holy
moments. And they know, they will hear it again on the
Great Shabbos.
We don’t travel the way our grandparents traveled.
We go to the same place but we travel differently. What
they did in months we do in a few hours. We need a yeshivah
where we can put our children into a holy jet. They are
ready. Have you heard them cry? The earth is full of their
cries. Have you heard them pray? Heaven is filled with
their prayers. Have you seen their shining eyes? Only the
stars can reflect them.
We need a yeshivah where we teach our children how to
dream not when they are asleep but when they are awake.
A Jew never stops dreaming, because the true G-d people
do what He does. G-d is dreaming. The world subjects
young people from their early childhood to such mundane
dreams. Their souls are aching. Can you feel their pain?
We need a yeshivah where we teach our children how to
walk again. How to have a Jewish holy spine. Where they
can stand again before G-d, not bowed down, but looking
up to Him. We need a yeshivah where children are taught
the language of nature: the language of the birds bringing
a message from Jerusalem, where they understand the wind
blowing them in the direction of the Holy Wall. We need
a new kind of yeshivah where our children are not taught
how they have to study, but how they want to study. We
need a yeshivah for little Abrahams who want to get there
on their own — but this time together. This time with
their brothers. A place where they learn the will of G-d,
but even more, the oneness of G-d. We need a yeshivah with
teachers who with every letter they teach, show their pupils
a new way and with every word, bring them a new soul.
It’s an emergency. We lost six million and we are
losing more now. The children are waiting. Jerusalem is
waiting. The whole world is waiting.
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
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Written and Composed by The Blumstein Brothers
Produced and Arranged by Mendy Portnoy
Vocals Recorded by Izzy Drihem and Yehuda Pinsker
Choir Vocals, Joey Newcomb, Izzy Drihem and Mendy Portnoy
Bass: Alon Hillel
Guitars: Noam “Hargol” Burg
Additional Nylon Guitar: Joey Newcomb
Drums: Barak Aharon
Mixed and Mastered by Yaron Saffer
Artwork: Yakov Josephy
Lyric Video – MATISHRIKI Studio