Tonight, after sundown, we count the following day of the Omer:
Today is 41 days, which is 5 weeks and 6 days of the Omer
How to: the blessings and procedure for counting the Omer.
From Our Community:
Contributed by: Eva Kleederman. A Story of Jews Finding Each Other After the War Performed by Riki Rose, Song by Yomtov Ehrlich.
This piece really moves me. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people took after the war to find family members, literally walking to places around Europe where they’d “heard” a relative “might” be.
Rikki Rose left the Satmar community into which she was born to pursue her love of music (and to be free of the strictures of Hasidism), and she has become hugely popular. She sings in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English, and her repertoire ranges from showgirl -style fare to unvarnished balladry. Recently, she has been pairing up with her sister Mimi, who remains pretty frum. In addition to singing together, they do some charming cooking spots, joking around in Yiddish/ English, breaking into Yiddish song and dance while waiting for butter to melt (or whatever), and shedding light on their growing-up in a Satmar household.
Rabbi Yom-Tov Ehrlich (יום-טוב עהרליך) (1914–1990) was a Hasidic musician, composer, lyricist, and recording artist known for his popular Yiddish musicalbums. He was born in Kozhan Gorodok and raised in the nearby Davyd-Haradok, both then part of the Russian Empire. He survived the Holocaust in Samarkand, Soviet Union. In 1946 he left,[1]eventually settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Ehrlich was born to a family of Karlin-Stoliner Hasidim.
Some of Ehrlich’s favorite songs were later recorded by other popular Hasidic entertainers, such as Mordechai Ben David, Lipa Schmeltzer, Levy Falkowitz,[2] & Avraham Fried, although Ehrlich himself used Russian classical and folk melodies to accompany his own Yiddish lyrics.
His most popular songs include: “Yakkob”, the tale of a Jew in Uzbekistan during the Holocaust;[3] “Shloof mein kind” (“Sleep, my child”), the song of a Jewish woman who finds a child alone in the woods during the Holocaust; and “Williamsburg”, a song about Hasidic Williamsburg during the 1950s.
