""The video combines the worship of God with the world of painting and music. Three areas in which I find something in common, and my dream was to combine them in a unified performance," says Shmulik.
Rabbi Zalman heard the melody "Kol Atzmoti" from his grandmother, Mrs. Hanna Elka, may God have mercy on her.
While the KGB was pursuing his father, who was teaching underground and was forced to flee and hide many times, the grandmother would watch over the children and sing with them, in tears, the melody "All My Bones" - when they understand that the Jews are the "poor and destitute" and the communists are the "stronger than him" and the "thieves" and pray to God to save them from their hands... (From what Rabbi Zalman wrote about the melody).
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In the clip, which was filmed in a Chabad village, a writer can be seen encountering a Hasidic man wearing a tallit who is devoutly playing the tune "Kol Atzmoti" to himself.
He finds himself painting this special moment inspired by prayer and music - and when he finishes painting, an elderly devotee approaches him in admiration and wishes him success.
When the camera focuses back on the painting, one can see that the bench on which the devotee sat is empty, and this was all in the artist's imagination...
Credits: Music: Hasidim 'Ne'vel' | Lyrics: Shacharit prayer for Shabbat and Yo't, Chabad version | Musical arrangement and production: Chaimka Hadad | Mixing and mastering: Yaniv Blass | Video production, direction and editing: Yoel Roitman | Photography: Mandy Solish | Poetry and painting: Shmulik Sofer | Cover design: S&H | PR: Mandy Kornet.
