On the occasion of the year of the ‘Audience’ Zvi Grinheim singer and cantor, challenges the words of the ‘Audience’ and for the first time created and sang a quiet song. The reason for arriving in the quiet direction, Eliba Degrinheim, is that “when God brings the people together, it is a serious, conservative event, one should treat the event with holy fear”, at the same time, as a Hasid, Zvi understands the jumping and the happy, because in the end “a great mitzvah is to be With joy always…”
The congregation is the name of a mitzvah done from the Torah to gather all the people of Israel, at the end of the Shmittah year, and to read the Torah to them. “The Rebbe ordered us, his followers, to do public gatherings, as an artist – I feel that this mitzvah for me is to sing and perform at as many events and public gatherings as possible. and to bridge and connect different communities”. At one of the performances in the USA, he found a quiet corner and composed the audience’s verses in the quiet and moving melody.
“Music is a tool of connection, in music everyone is the same. You can see it in the performances, I can be on stage with musicians and music producers that our ways are different, and through music we will reach a connection even with the difference that exists.”
Zvi would like the song to touch the hearts of the people of Israel, so that they understand the meaning of Torah gatherings everywhere and in every Jewish home around the world, that the mitzvot of the congregation will awaken in them. “One of the special things about crowd gatherings is that it’s for everyone. Not only for men, only for women or only for children, this is a mitzvah for every Jew wherever he is.”
“In recent years it seems that we are in a big public debate, we are brothers, and it is unnecessary. One of the goals of the current song is to bridge audiences wherever they are, and to bring back the sanity and the true love of Israel that we had as a people.”
Words: Deuteronomy 31:10-13 Composer: Zvi Grinheim Arrangement and musical production: Eli Lauper.