Aharon's previous album ("I Set My Seat in the Beit Midrash") became a flag and a symbol. Various audiences who love the Torah and the Beit Midrash stood behind the sounds and lyrics, making it the most prominent album of 2013.
Driven by his love for Torah and the study of Torah through hard work, Aharon is now beginning his journey towards his next album. Razel, a member of a large Israeli musical family, pointed to his desired destination in his previous album – the Beit Midrash. His long journey to study Torah has influenced and continues to influence his work and his daily routine, and has profound implications for everything related to the atmosphere that Torah study creates.
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The new hit was created with the guys on the grass. Razel is often invited to sing with the yeshiva students at 'Zitzim', and almost always the guys spontaneously ask him to come up with a song or melody for them on the spot, according to need and current events. Last summer, in one of the busy camps, between one and four in the morning, the song "Song of the Spirits" was born.
""It happened at a very well-known yeshiva camp," Aharon recalls, "somewhere in some educational institution that was on vacation (where the camps are usually held), somewhere between one and four in the morning (these are the hours that the "zits" are held), somewhere between the grass and the dining room (the distance from the houses of the sleeping residents was taken into account) and sometime between "I Have Decided" and "Time of Redemption" and a collection of Carlebach songs (this is my repertoire for performances of this kind), I started singing this song, while the guys joined in singing and dancing, until dawn broke and 'All the Spirits' was born...""
The lyrics and chorus "Even if all the winds in the world come and blow on us - they cannot move us from here!" - are Aharon Razel's current interpretation of the scripture in Pirkei Avot: "Anyone whose deeds exceed his wisdom is like a tree whose branches are few but whose roots are many. Even if all the winds in the world come and blow on it - they cannot move it from its place.".
The powerful and beautiful image of '...something that stands firm against all currents, oppositions and difficulties, and yet holds all the power and strength' captured Razel's musical imagination. "These words are not appropriate to apply to the world of Torah in general and the study halls of our generation in particular," says Razel, "but to me this is an important message that symbolizes the Jewish people in general. Against all the spirits in the world"...
