Aharon Razel never ceases to surprise. These days, Daf Yomi students have really started studying the tractate 'Mo'ed Katan' and Aharon is already releasing a story-song - a work called 'Mo'ed Katan, Daf 7'.
Everyone who heard it was left with a tear in their eye and is ready to testify that this is another masterpiece from Aharon Razel's creative world.
In the new single, Aharon returns to his great inspiration: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Here too, as in the song "The Holy Hunchback," which became a classic and influenced the lives of thousands, the source is a story by Rabbi Shlomo.
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The song tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who describes his uncle, the "Scholar of Wisdom," who never stopped studying even in the death camps, because he knew the Gemara by heart. One night, the uncle wakes him up. He knows that this is his last day and has one request: "Please finish the tractate for me!"'
""As the grandson of Holocaust survivors and as a Jew moved by the dedication of Torah study, the message in the story is so strong and so empowering that I had to share the world with the tear in the song: 'The six holy millions ask us: Finish the books we have not finished'..." (from the song)
The day I met my uncle Rabbi Shalom, the life in the camp received hope. With another slice of bread he gave me, a word of encouragement, or comfort.
My uncle, Hasidic Kuznetsov, from the world that has already been destroyed, we survived there together for almost two years. What I will tell you here I have not yet told anyone, but for the sake of future generations:
One night, he woke me up from my sleep, woke me up and said to me:
""Know that you, you alone, will be left of the whole family.
And I have a feeling that tomorrow I won't be here anymore.
And this is my last request:
As you know, I know the entire Gemara, by heart, word for word.
And from the day I entered Auschwitz, I never stopped learning,
Today I am holding the tractate "Mo'ed Katan",
I estimate that by tomorrow I will reach page 7, page 1.
I ask you, if God will spare you and you leave here alive,
I swear to you: please finish the treatise for me!""
The six holy millions ask us:
Finish the books you haven't finished yet!
Please pass this message on to your children!
I ask you, if God will spare you and you leave here alive,
I swear to you: please finish the treatise for me!
Please finish the treatise for me!
Hence the challenge for us today: These days, Daf Yomi students are engaged in Tractate Moed Katan, the tractate that the uncle asks his nephew in the story to finish for him, because he will no longer be among the living.
Aharon Razel, who feels privileged to release the poem to the world these days, expects and hopes that more Jews will be inspired by this holy story and complete the tractate in memory of that great David, from the moving story of Rabbi Shlomo...
Lyrics: Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach | Composition and arrangement: Aharon Razel | Musical production: Avi Tal | Illustration: Shalhabatiya Ziss Photography, video-art editing: Narrative Film Studio
