This is song number 7 from the debut album 'Levdach', which was released last summer, and it completes the series of three songs that were recently released with a lyric clip and uploaded to the Internet in an organized manner, with a uniform graphic language, and joins the previous songs: 'Daven Mit A Nigun' and 'Moishel'eh.'.
Lyrics:
In my youth, my eyes saw
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Words for millions -
My wisdom comes.
And on three you stood:
Me, you and the world.
I am still learning.
And I saw: the world
From your light, only horns -
And only two remained:
You and I.
I have inquired about the heirs of my heart.
And here is my life.
A spray from your source -
And here it is:
You are alone.
Simcha Friedman on the behind-the-scenes story of the song:
I first encountered the books of the Chabad poet Zvi Yair at the age of 15. Of all the thousands of words written in the three volumes of his poems, this text touched my heart in a special way. His wonderful ability - to express such a Jewish and Hasidic message through modern and polished poetry, in exquisite rhyme, in short letters but with deep meaning for every word - enchanted me.
The melody of the words went through many incarnations until it reached its current form, but the melody that plays between the verses, this one without the words, was there from the first moment. In my imagination I saw a kind of heavenly court in which a holy soul and the Creator, blessed be He, dance together... He envelops her, embraces her, and she becomes, as it were, a part of Him - "You are He alone.".
I heard an exciting fact from Rabbi Berel Lazar, the grandson of the poet Zvi Yair. When I told Rabbi Berel that I was planning to publish a poem by his grandfather, he responded with excitement and told me that he knew that the Lubavitcher Rebbe had asked his grandfather to send his poems to be composed. Zvi Yair did send some of the poems to a famous composer at the time, but in reality this did not happen.
In the song "Levdach," I was privileged, therefore, to fulfill his wish and fulfill the Rebbe's request to him!
Music: Simcha Friedman | Lyrics: Poet Zvi Yair (Zvi Meir Steinmetz) | Arrangement: Ami Cohen | Drawings: Mandy Yaroslavsky | Graphics and design: Yossi Weisfish | Lyrics clip: Menachem Goldstein - 'Advertisement You See'.
