Book Five, New Single: Inspired by this week's Torah readings, the composer Ovadia Hamma wrote and composed personal ideas and musings, a kind of Midrashic poems. A broad-based project that he conceived, created, recorded, and produced over the past four years.
It began thanks to a ritual of reading and self-study of the weekly Torah and its midrash during Shabbat.
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""On Saturday night, I composed the idea that came to me," Hamma reveals, "and during the week I recorded the piece in the studio.".
Indeed, every week he diligently processed the ideas and musings from the parsha and transformed them into a Jewish, spiritual, renewed, pulsating, and living soul song, in his unique style.
In the center The teacher To the parsha Because you will leave. - 'In a small moment', Hamma is moved by the verses of comfort from the prophet Isaiah in this week's Haftarah.
The Midrashir relates the parasha and the verse that opens it in the following way: "For you shall go forth to war against your enemy." The Torah does not say war "against" your enemy, but "on" your enemy, as if to say that wars – both wars for existence, and also your internal wars for being a better person – are a cursed thing, and yet they are still a part of life.
In fact, the verse says that going to war for justice, morality, and other noble values is in itself a victory over the enemy. In other words: whoever aligns himself with the contradictions within him and gathers himself, and whoever challenges his weaknesses or fights for his principles and his path, his faith, or his art in an uninclusive and unjust environment, is already on the path to victory.
It will take as long as it takes, there will be obstacles, but victory is on the way. "How sweet will victory be if we never lose," Hamma once wrote in another poem, for suffering is painful, and above all, "he who comes to be purified is helped by his hand" from heaven. In fact, every serious undertaking we undertake in the world, done with joy, with a whole heart, and out of vision, love, and faith, is part of the war to build a reformed world, and help is on the way.
Especially for the difficult moments that were prepared for us on the journey, for the cloudy breaks and for the hiding of the face, the prophet Isaiah says the miraculous verses, which comfort us and come to remind us that all the descents are for the sake of the ascents, and to ensure that we do not forget the promise and the grace of God. From these promised victories of the spirit, the whole world will be fragrant, even the defeated side!
The word of God is a word!
I left you in a moment.
And with great mercies I will gather you,
I hid in the foam of the sea.
My face is calmer than yours.
And with eternal mercy, and with eternal mercy,
And with everlasting mercy I have mercy on you.
The Lord said, "You will be redeemed.".
For the mountains will be destroyed and the hills will be brought low.
And my mercy toward you will never cease.
And the covenant of my peace will not be broken.
And with eternal mercy, and with eternal mercy,
And with everlasting mercy I have mercy on you.
The Lord said, "You will be redeemed.".
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Alongside Hamma's personal performance, the 'Hamadrashir' project features many talented artists from the emerging Jewish music genre.
The song A little moment Although it was already included in the album 'Prayer of Man' with the wonderful and powerful poetry of Yehoram Gaon, the novelty for the Midrashir project is the exciting duet version before you.
The teacher The weekly is published on Hamma's YouTube and Facebook pages, "to spread refinements and enlightenment from the Torah in small doses, a kind of weekly capsule of light that spreads a pleasant aroma of Judaism.".
Madrashir One single from each five-volume collection is released as a single throughout the year, and in the meantime the project has become a regular weekly feature in various media outlets. After revealing all the songs each week, Hamma intends to compile all the content into a complete book/album, also accompanied by original drawings by the artist. Liora Rosenman For each and every affair.
