I don't think it'll be an exaggeration to say that's what keeps me going.

That is a schlickers I hope to be and that's what what keeps me alive.

It was a personal agenda.

I might have petered out already, you know, OK, been there, you know, reached reached reached a certain level and time to retire.

But I think it's safe to say that it's it's the the mission, the schlickers 'cause my name again, David, just can you give me the kayak And people still want to hear me sing he name.

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Alaikum Shalom baruch Hashem.

OK.

Thank you so much for making the time out of your very busy schedule to to do this.

Thank you for the invite.

I made it to the the hair.

What?

What's left?

OK, I know you're a fan so makes sense.

So I think that's just the frame what this conversation, Baruch Hashem, I don't think you're new to talking to people and, you know, being out there, but we might focus on things that are not focused on on other conversations that you have with other people.

So that's that's my intention.

Good.

Bring it on.

OK.

So generally the the podcast is called the Monk Sudan.

And what we're really doing is talking to different Sudan from all different types and different stripes in that I feel that you're very unique in the sense that you're a Hassid and you're in a position in.

London Exactly.

Go on, go on.

And you're you're you're in a position that other people are not.

So just in order to I wanna say that maybe I'll ask you a question that has to do just in chronological order of your life, just that that might make things simple.

How's that?

OK.

OK.

So I obviously know that you you grew up here.

Conceiva.

Conceiva Crown Heights by the rubber and most people I mean you, you were born is is it a secret?

What year?

You were born?

What year?

Yeah.

Is it important?

The the the decade.

Just tell me the decade.

I was born after the future.

Everybody changes.

Give in.

OK, so so you the huffs, the llamas, I mean, this is this is something like that.

So this is, I mean, it's it's I don't know if it's unique, but I don't know how many people here are around that grew up.

You know, I think you grew up on President St., right?

Correct, that was second stop.

No second stop.

So I'll tell you what I know and you can fill me in.

I do know.

The first thing I know about you is that the building that you lived in 14181414, President St.

1418 is the next one, correct?

Obviously that's a famous building because the rabbit's mother and Tahana lived there and I believe there was some interaction.

Maybe you can tell us.

Wait, tell me about it.

It's well known that we were neighbors with the We have his mother, and we knew exactly when Dev would come every day to see his mother.

And I would stand outside and sing, and then it would do that to me.

So that's the whole story.

That's it.

End of conversation.

So you're talking about this was like a very often that this would happen?

You probably, yeah, every day.

I don't remember, but it was it was often that I had this host to sing for the revison in her house.

So.

What was that?

My mother, Aliah Sheldon would go visit sometimes.

I don't know how that got arranged, but and she would say to me Zing Zingapus.

I guess she knew that my family's a singing family because she would hear this mirrors from our our apartment.

So you lived in 1414, she lived in 1418, correct?

So you could hear from in front.

Yeah, exactly.

When she was outside she would hear Shabbos and she very much enjoyed hearing this mirrors.

So she knew that we were singing family and she would say to me sing.

So I was told.

I don't remember exactly because I was four years old, so I would sing from behind the curtain 'cause I was a little bit shy and she very much enjoyed.

That was my big score to sing for the rabbits and rabbits and Hannah.

Do you?

Remember what you're saying.

Let's see, I think it was Tanya or Aderab.

I'm not sure.

I probably can't go for Rasta.

What did I think?

I mean, you know, from Babucha.

Babucha.

There's a few stories with the rabbits and with the rabbit's mother, but in a good name.

Yeah, I know.

First of all, I don't know if it's public, but there's a, there's a recording of that.

People say it's her singing and good name, I think, which are her father's in the good name and others I think as well.

And there's a few stories like she would ask what Nigen did I teach, you know, some castella.

She would ask she like I think she interacted with people a lot and she would say that.

Time she was the vino on the Guinea.

Yeah, that.

That's what I understood.

Yeah, Yeah.

Then of course it's her brother that that accompanies me till this very day.

She told Rabbi Weinberg that I remember that I'm not, I know exact the exact lotion.

But he has a future in being a Samaya Claudius role really.

OK, I didn't know that.

Now you know.

OK, so I know the whole story.

You heard about that Bishas Maisa or this is later?

I heard that from the daughter of Mendel Marazov who was there, Bishas Maisa.

She was standing and talking there.

Everything was standing and talking to Rabbi Weinberg.

Rabbi Weinberg and she told him is that there's nothing nothing for Yannon fence there Confederates Shaneus Meadis Dartne Dartne is avramble, I think I think she called me Avramble and he he will have a a future Richard Shamim Nagina.

No.

OK, so it's Abraham and the rabbit's mother.

Correct.

Was there something with with R rabbitson?

All that I know is that I was told that in the car.

I said how Bushtam would play the cassettes for her in the car and she very much liked Tatenu Babuchining obviously, and the lyrics that I wrote about describing the Alva that Hashem has for every year according to the Baalchempt by Ben Johid etcetera.

And then he's he told that he printed it.

It's written in a written in a book that one Eddie Rosh Hashanah, before she benched, she was singing the snig Tatinu.

And that's one of your that's on one of the first albums.

That's what was on the third album.

Third album.

OK, so besides the singing, let's I'm curious to First of all, I've noticed throughout the years I've been watching videos of the Rebbe.

Yeah, that's nice.

That I see you not only by Feblingins, but like sometimes in the weekday, you know, then especially later years and now in the base, I was saying serious all the time.

You're you're part of the people.

Am I correct that sometimes you stood like in the front near Darren Kaidish?

Is that is that something accurate that I think I remember?

Could be I didn't have a mock in Kavua during those.

Yeah, I saw you more than once in that spot.

I mean, I I live in Crown Heights, you know, so when there was a circa off I bring in, I was there LA right.

So what's the what's the Hiddish?

But yeah, Zahino.

What's the Hiddish if every single person in Crown Heights was there?

Every single thing.

Unless they were busy working.

I mean, if there was a, you know, I'd get, we'd get a beeper and we'd run to 770.

Right.

And you when you, when you were a kindergarten, it's you went to Talatera, Where, where did you attend?

All my life I.

Understand that your family didn't like your father, like didn't comfortable about it.

Right.

Was it?

No, I say the both they this were not connected to Habad in any way In, in in the in the Haim and the shtetl coming to America.

My my father met Rashag actually in Tashkent.

I don't know how much of A bond they had, but something clicked when my father came to him.

My my parents came to America.

Did Rashag offered him a job to come work in 10 Ketimimim on Bedford Ave., Bedford and Dean and he worked there for 45 years.

But he kept he kept his men hog him, his his lavouche, his Nosakh Shtraimov, the bechusher.

He was a Blujev Babev Hassidim.

So you know, I'm I'm a combination of Habar and Hagas.

So my, my question is your, your father, like he didn't consider he never officially made a switch.

It's just that he's he's here.

Like how does that work?

Well.

He he, he was definitely a Hassid, but he didn't change his.

So the Shinu vesla Shaynam Vesla Vousham, you know, but all those kids he gave to the rebel.

Right, so how did?

The parents gave to the rebel.

So how did he decide to send his kids to to the Bamcha Maestas?

I have to ask him.

I'll try.

Yeah, I should go have brought this.

I should go have brought this.

I think they tried for a year and other yeshivas didn't work out.

And then how about became the permanent address?

So like so there was there was only like a transition, just that the kids.

Yeah, pretty much.

Took on pretty much everything.

Yeah.

And they all went to all the theatre.

It's important.

They all went to all the theatre.

Even though your father worked.

In went to all the theatre in the beginning.

Yeah, maybe then it moved over to the ocean.

Ocean.

Where was it the I'm not sure, but it's all all the theatre at the beginning for sure.

And yeah, they're.

Great.

So my question for you is, but like being around 770, so something that you and your brothers acquired on your own like your father wasn't there every family and.

No, Yeah, no, yes.

This was a self trained army so.

How?

How old are you when you started doing that?

I was, I was ready.

I was born into it.

I had no no justing.

So the Freeman brothers were just.

Maybe at the beginning they had a little, but I didn't.

It didn't last too long, so it was a very easy adjustment.

Right.

Like it wasn't after like 10 years of being there that they moved over.

It was like, I think it was maybe a year that they tried in a different yeshiva and it didn't work.

So that was it.

It was a quick, quick adjustment.

Did your father have your like your parents had you hid this were.

They.

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Absolutely.

You remember it.

With me was my Brahmetzer.

That was the one the only that I had.

What happened then?

They've asked me about my pupil and I got a little far, far Blungett and they helped me out.

It was very nice to me and that was that was the only hit as I had.

But my other brothers and sisters, they had hit this and everything.

So I think what, what I noticed, you know, before we get to the the music part, let me just think a little more so.

And you were here, you were in New York the whole time in yeshivah's.

Yeah, whatever.

Yeah, till till we went for two years to New Haven, that was already, that was already slickest.

You're slickest in New Haven.

Yeah, all the theater all the way through.

So fine, so I I think that what's I noticed someone growing up consuming some of your material.

Consuming is a good word.

OK, yeah.

And I'm in the premiers and I'm zooming.

OK, OK.

Is.

That the wrong word.

I don't.

Know it's a good word.

It's a good word.

OK, So what I noticed is, and I I read this also, what I noticed is that the themes, especially of the early albums, for sure, specifically the Mushiya themes, but a lot of them, for example, the one you just mentioned about the Tatenyu that, that the Bhashanti says, yeah, the leaders have been yahooed that is born the parents Isaac Muslim, right?

So this, these are things that the rabbit said hundreds of times.

And I feel like in your the messaging in your music, especially the English songs were very much connected to what the rabbit was speaking.

I am very pleased to hear that you got that.

Did you figure that out?

Because I basically based all my songs and what I heard from the rubber.

All my songs, I mean the English or the Yiddish where I had a chance to say what I'm feeling.

Not a not a pasuk.

Basically, when I heard from the rubber, no job Left behind was clearly from the rubber.

Can you you?

Know.

Canadian.

Sagabi Hanuk.

Tattoo giant shoulders.

Goodbye Govas.

Time is now, actors.

All these things were things I heard from the rubber.

Basically my that was my go to.

So my question is, was that for you like a, was that an intentional thing I guess?

I guess the question is.

It's very intentional.

Yeah, I guess the question, how was it for you?

I'm sure it wasn't simple for you.

The IT wasn't a typical issue about her, especially in those times, things to do the the the, the singing, the singing is.

More clearly, that's why I changed my name.

Was it hard for you?

It was.

Very hard it was.

It was a uncharted territory.

Well, you started off in charted territory, weren't you?

In a choir.

Oh, that was OK.

That was kosher.

That was fine.

That was, you know, that was a deadly lipsticker.

That's what means you have in common that we were both in LA Lipsticks choir.

You were.

I made it.

Oh, probably the.

Yeah, probably.

The end of the year.

Oh look at that.

We can say we were the L Lipsticks Choir I.

Told I told to my kids myself and I'm free.

Regular choir.

I like that.

I say you're about you're a bowel monagon.

Never push in the ginner.

Something.

I hope so, maybe.

OK, good, good.

When I was in LA Lips group they were only sing.

We only sing the good.

Only in the good name.

You too also for all these albums that he made.

My favorite my.

What's that record is a solo?

Of you, my famous solo that was in Minnesota.

But there's another solo of you.

Is that sound Lip screw?

What?

What choir is that?

On on his albums that solos.

Right.

And that's not in the Goodman.

No, those are his songs.

So he he made, he composed that song Elio Navi.

He composed a lot of songs.

Really, those are his songs.

I think the two or three albums that he put out, that's his songs.

He had a lot of songs.

So that's separate from the choir.

That was the choir was concerts, Habad concerts.

That was all.

Right, that's albums.

Were his songs 2?

Separate and you were a soloist on that.

It was he discovered me I.

Didn't realize that he composed those songs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And then some of the songs we sing are songs that he sing on like we're saying he he go then.

Yeah, that's that's how I learned the song.

There's a lot in the skies to that digging.

Yeah.

So like I have I do the Ali lipstick.

No stuff, probably.

He's a good mocker.

You know, you know the story with him at the what?

Was the my sense.

He he, he, he.

You weren't the first one in Labavich.

The way I heard the story was that he was basically.

Yeah, yeah.

Remind me he.

Was he was he was leaving Seydaheshiva?

He's from Altisraal, right?

Can't send something to to learn right?

You can't He was leaving Seydah and going to a music lessons like he ever.

Paid for it.

Yeah, then I think for for not singing for whichever, whichever instrument he was playing.

And then Hola found out about he wanted to throw him at Yeshiva and I don't know exactly the context and those years that I've had on Jacobus Van Hall every every month.

Kobe was then that I've said to not not to not throw him out that I've asked how is he paying for it?

And then did I have a?

No, it's not.

It's not the sorry, I'm I'm.

Not I'm amazed.

Yeah, yeah.

And then they have A and they have a paid for the for the music lessons.

He's another good example of a guy that, I mean, he's not like he's had lips.

Mendeford of us, right?

OK, you mentioned it before.

I mean, he's he's a lips, right?

But what do you mean he's who's making a good name, who's doing the choir, who's doing the kayak, who's playing by every Hassan?

Who's playing every rally?

Yeah.

Did you sing?

Did you sing in front of the lab ever?

Only as a little kid coming to visit his mother.

Never.

Never in the later years.

No.

Never worked out.

But although I saw a picture of you when the when the when Rosenberg had the silver Zammer, the choir.

Yeah, yeah, you're, you're getting that time, I believe.

I went every time to get I have a video actually me getting the battle.

Yeah, the the whole, it's a very flavor.

Ke$ha bracha, Ke$ha bracha.

It's like a Hampshire.

I have a clear video of it.

I think that's when the I think that's the one.

I think it means that one.

Task is another.

Task is another guy and another another another and that wanted to sing how they ever asked they ever asked.

The violin player who would ever told the players violin they never was?

No, they never asked to sing Dafka not Lavan Shenugunen.

They wanted the the the Grizina Nagunen and the Russian Naguna.

They wanted the they said to put it on the hair.

Those three, those three spy the Shenugunen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I read somewhere they.

Never had a such a brilliant approach to things with some imagine the squashing of and this group added so much so much in the Guinea to havad.

He has a whole series of Naguna plays on the piano and.

He's singing the whole Saif Andaguna from the notes.

The whole Saif, he did the whole thing.

I think so, yeah.

That's what And that's what it is.

It's the whole he's saying Saif Andaguna.

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Yeah, but as I, you know, got older, that was singing was not a very popular thing to do.

Baylin acquires one thing, but to be a solo singer was and but some how, some way I decided to go ahead with it.

Everybody gave me the smash over and that's why I changed from Friedman to Fried.

So nobody should know because I never wanted to be in this gal.

I wanted to be a a Tadik Nistor, you know, for a few months.

No wonder who this Who's this guy?

Fried who?

Tsanaya Zinger and I had to reveal my true identity and put the name Prakasham.

It was Matlia.

So I I stuck with it.

One second, but before that you weren't besides all ellipsicar, I know of another thing that you did in Lubavitch.

Yeah, you're in the hare.

That's true.

You have a so Heshamda Heshamda.

I was in the choir for many years and and that doing those, but I was actually get one solo.

Maybe you could tell me a little bit about what it was to record in the Hare?

You know, I I don't have that much of A recollection.

It was, you know, some adult choir and we went into a studio and we sang.

Who's doing it?

I don't remember.

What was it?

Silverman's.

I don't remember.

Who was even conducting.

I don't even remember.

Who?

Who was the Labomacher that was?

It was Kalashevsky, it was involved in the Lipscher.

Those were the two.

I think those were the 2.

But you remind me of a cute story I heard from Velvo Pasternak.

He was also he was conducting some of the choirs, some of some of the albums.

And he writes in his book that he was telling that Schmoozamunov this in this day, we're going to go into the studio with the you in the light.

We're going to record and I'm the conductor.

You watch me when we sing, I show you when we when we start, when we finish, when we pause, when we breathe.

So Schmooz smiled and said, Revolvo, I'm very happy to hear that you're going to conduct us, but don't take it to heart.

But when you're going to be conducting, not looking at you won't be looking at you, he says.

Why not?

He's coming.

We sing.

We sing with our eyes closed.

This is actually the choir.

Yeah.

Conductor.

Conductor.

You heard this from.

Him.

He writes it in his book.

Yeah.

I saw some other write up.

He has a book.

OK, I saw a write up from a picture from him.

There's a whole write up of I think it's a transcript of a talk that he gave.

He describes different things like this.

I think one of the the first time they recorded they're about to start.

It's like you can't start some Podharaban Al Maske you Sam Zingen.

You have to, you have to say, oh, hi, it's a Fabling and.

Even better.

Good.

Even better.

So you're dealing with real professional choirs?

Right.

Conductors Dr.

I could I could probably venture, I guess that as when you hear the recording stacker, you hear that the singing with their eyes closed because you know, it's not this professional tight and and you know, so, so perfect.

This is actually the Shafa bringing the zinc.

That's what we had to grow up with.

Yeah, that's what we had.

I was able to put out four.

How about albums after that?

But that was based on the Haya.

The concept.

If I haven't, I heard that from, you know, the branch, then from the Haya.

You want to hear an interesting story?

A year or two ago I was invited to Bashar Brokers in Williamsburg and the guy from the choir says to me, people like I get the hibatska niggum, atifa niggum.

I said that's what the pot happening says it's very nichka.

I said what happening?

That was the best compliment I ever got.

I said that's pretty amazing.

They introduced, he said.

This guy, he sings it at every, so it's not a Hiddish anymore.

The is not afraid of Hannigan.

It's like.

No, no, he said he was a tiffer.

They want, they love a get the Habatska.

Tiff, Tiff.

It could be better.

That was really old news.

Yeah, that's amazing.

Took time.

Took time for these songs together.

But on the top my concerts, I always put in the Habad Medley place place gets up.

It's just as something holy and and frail about it.

You see Behasen is that when people play other Nagunnam, whatever other songs, you know the so the crowds like they have only Nagunnam and others don't the pile.

They always have a nagging in there.

I mean, you could see it's a different vibe.

I.

Agree.

I had a mushpeel once told me what's the difference in a citizen and not.

It's not written anywhere but you see it that non solution a good name or geisha maybe saying make you want to dance with yourself solution a good name make you want to dance with other people.

That's good.

I like that.

And you can actually see that like I've since you told me that I've watched that see like they're seeing all the the modern songs.

It's very hard to dance with other people and then the solution are going to like.

Like that?

You you get into a circle, your hand on the shoulders or whatever it is.

I like that I once gave a hack daughter that some music is for your body, that that you know the trusted music and some music you feel that it's touching your soul.

But this is a good That's it.

I have to ask him if he's, if he's a mocker, if it's such a thing or this is a sociological.

Mocker.

If it works then you know.

But do they have all this?

The best mocker.

It's about maybe I'm jumping around, but I'm, I'm, I'm going to remember that's what I was holding.

So you did 4 albums on Naguna Chabad right in my estimation?

I have to do more, yeah.

OK, in my in my estimation, because I remember when we came out with them, I feel I mean today everyone sings La Bouche and Naguna.

I feel that part of what popularized them in the veldt was your albums.

Is that is that something you?

I love hearing that.

That's best compliment.

OK, good.

So, so this is ties into what we were holding, I believe Sai within the Gune Chabad and Sai with the messaging in your singing, once you were doing it, maybe you were uncomfortable starting, but you did it.

But I think that, you know, Alabama Chakhasan knows that everything's a schluhus and Hassan Makhta Sviva and everything like that.

And I really feel like you took that to heart and that was part of the the mission.

I don't think it'll be an exaggeration to say that's what keeps me going.

That is a schlickers I hope to be and that's what what keeps me alive.

If it was a personal agenda, I might have petered out already, you know, OK, been there, you know, reached reached reached a certain level and time to retire.

But I think it's safe to say that it's, it's the the mission, the Schlifus, 'cause my name again.

They just, you know, gives me the kayak and people still want to hear me sing.

He named me.

So how do you today?

So I mean, then you were doing the live messaging from from the rabbit side Bingins.

How do you feel like today you're being Mamala?

I guess there's two crowds there's and in the last few years you've been very involved with people outside of the that are not yet shame itated in mitzvah.

They also dealing with other guys in in the film.

The duets.

The Israeli duets.

It's like how?

How is that?

What are the 2?

It's part of it.

It's all part of it to, you know, bridge the gap through music with others than myself, which has worked wonderfully by Hashem.

Look, whatever we have from the river is we have it, you know, at the at at BS.

So we have his guidelines, we have his feelings about subjects, how he thinks about things, what his take is, what his.

So we have enough material to to keep going at at at BS Mushiya.

What are the topics today?

Same topics, still still screaming at Maasai.

Mushiya is still a popular topic, although it's becoming a little more painful about, you know, the boys taking so long.

You're saying when you came out with the time is now?

Yeah, it was very.

That was supposed to be, that's it, the last album.

That's it exactly.

No Jew.

Why?

Why?

The time is not even no Jew.

I was talking already 45 years later came out.

It's a long time to scream out, must say.

But we'll continue until we bring the house down.

Right.

No, I'm, I'm saying even for myself as Lebar Jacuzzid in my house, there wasn't only in the hire, I have to admit.

It's.

Actually, a story.

Actually, I don't know if I'm not going to say stories from people without getting the details right that I asked them first.

But I know Rabbi Seldarin we had on the podcast a few episodes ago and I hope I get corrected if I'm saying it wrong.

But apparently Rabbi Khavikov told him the stubs of Zaina Flay with her maybe that maybe told his wife I don't have to find out the happy house.

So he recommended what one of the ways to do that is to play music in the house and he said loved African Affair.

Really.

That's I asked him.

I asked Darren's son Yossi.

What did you?

So what was it?

It's really happen for you, David.

That's what it, that's what it was beautiful.

So I'm saying that as a as a kid.

So I grew up, you know, I was born before Gemo Tamas, but in my formative years were afterwards.

So the whole, the way that Evan was talking about Mashiach was yeah, but it's also, it's also, it was, you know, fresh, fresh in people's minds.

Part of the way I was exposed to that in my personal experience was through listening to that's what I had in the house.

All, all those, all those albums that you're talking about.

It's funny because my mother.

Didn't like the musical arrangements and the time is now.

Oh yeah, but the but the interesting but the Yeah.

We have to interview her.

Why she didn't like that.

I don't.

Know, yeah.

It's funny because when I give a brother to Houston Kala, I'll say to them, your house should be filled with, you know, Ava Viejo, sholo inviseros and good music.

Very important.

Right.

So Afreira Cristov is, it's a wonderful ingredient, the beats being modestrated in the house, that's for sure.

Right, and I did see that there were some from the lab to to your actual career, like I I last night I was I went on gems website and the living archive for all the photos and I saw a picture of you which I never saw before handing the lab the album a.

Cassette A.

Cassette.

Yeah.

The tape, yeah.

Do you remember what the lab said then?

Because it looks like you're saying something today.

I.

Probably have it written down somewhere.

I'm actually surprised I I spoke because I never, I never said a word to the Rebbe.

But I guess someone, someone encouraged me to give the Rebbe the new cassette and say this is the new, the new album.

What he said about Adaraba.

I don't really, I have to look up.

I have I have a lot of answers from the Rebbe.

You do about what?

What can you share?

The trips, whether it was we're talking now in Kydish Ello, the river told me once when I had concerts in Kydish Ello, I notified the river.

The river said better.

He dabbed the whole Mochim Aldevar, Mellor Pasada.

Translates.

Surely you will mention that every concert the idea, the concept of the king is in the field in the month of Ello.

I thought the river says and and look what they told her.

So that the Klal you wrote to the rabbit like your itinerary doing this, you doing that coming up the album.

Every step of the way and.

What?

What are the answers?

Before and after I have a lot of different different I should.

Have asked you to bring them with.

Different answers so Evo was his here's an example.

So devil gave me a Schlichtus, yeah, to mention Vella Basoda Revicans to attack of the last the last few weeks, but I've been in London and in Australia for Hashem Elhabasat that was on the on the program.

So I I assumed that these type of things that you do was something that you took on as a pastor's to do.

I didn't realize that you actually have hilarized from the rebels.

That's one the Pushka.

The Pushka is another hero.

So what is it?

Everyone gave me a dollar and said to me.

I told everybody they had a a job that night and then this is a dollar.

Fadnzingen before you sing for Sadoka and then another dollar Alf nachen zingen al satay de la codes berjo at the zingen given by hatzlacha.

Second dollar to give after the concert as a thank you to Hashem for the Hatzlacha.

So for the last 30 plus years I travelled with a pushka.

I'm not sure how many years I started doing it on stage.

I would do it, you know, off stage before and after.

It wasn't the ageout to do it on stage.

But I think someone said to me, no, why don't you do it in public?

Let people say that you're doing, you know, you're connected to Hashem before and after each concert saying thank you.

And so now thank you, Hashem is very popular.

Thanks to that thank you Hashem, guys.

But the rebel skilage was thank you with a mitzvah, right?

It wasn't just saying thank you Hashem.

It was thank you Hashem with a maisa gashmi with giving to dokka.

And people know that Farid comes to a concert with the yellow Pushka like my, you know, they gave me this, this unique privilege approach.

So did ever found a way to take a, a young, a young bucker at the time?

I started when I was a bucker and find ways to keep me connected to him.

Whether it was the first Hitler that I got from the river.

And the first album was to print on it, not to play in Shabbos Niotif.

And that was very important to him.

So already he found the first first waiter.

Give me a give me a hero.

I remember I cried when I first got the answer because I said that it took from his time to answer a young buck.

I was putting out a an album, you know, busy with other things that I've took the time to answer me and he answered me a lot of times since then.

And actually I have an interesting story.

So sometimes before going on a on a long tour on a trip, besides going today, like on the airplane, I'll send the a request for a Brock of the Machova.

Whatever, I'm on the plane now.

I'm heading out on a long trip, a long trip.

Yeah, a long trip.

And give me a sign that you're that you're with me and you're benching me and this is going to be good.

And I usually add a little in the code that how am I going to know if I had a sign from the rebel If someone on this trip tells me a story about you?

That's what be the best decimal.

So my first stop was in London was I had a Bambitz in London and I was already at the end of the Bambitz.

People were leaving on the way out.

OK, I figured, OK, nothing happened on this particular night.

I mean, next night the whatever the other the other trips, it's had a long trip to be on the road.

On the way out, one guy comes over to me, very well dressed guy.

And he says to me, oh, Mr.

Freed, I'm going to tell you something.

You know that I don't look like a hostage, right?

But I want you to know that sometimes I'll get on the plane.

I'll fly to JFK, I'll go to the oil and fly right back to London.

See, I don't look like a husset, but I go to the river.

I come right back.

I don't even go out of the air, you know, out of the air.

Oh.

Then he says, I have a story for you.

I said, yeah, what story?

And he says, my father is a businessman, travels a lot.

And recently he was on a flight and the turbulence push it scared the wits attic because it was severe, severe turbulence.

And he was like really, really scared.

And his glasses fell down.

And he puts his hand under the seat to get his glasses and he feels something on the receipt, pulls it out.

It's the picture of the rebel on it.

Now they keep it at the airport, said when he when he found that under his seat on a Lufthansa flight someplace over Europe, a picture of the level under his seat and it calmed him down and they landed safely.

They survived.

But he that that picture calmed him down.

That story he tells me.

I gave him a big hug and I said thank you very much for sharing this story.

I said, however, that was with me.

Amazing story.

Yeah.

Under his seat on a plane to find the card of Philip Loim.

So I got my sign for Kai governor.

It's happened a few times.

So we know that we're connected for Haim.

And yeah, that's very, that's very special that you're connecting every, every, every chip with, with, with the level.

I just stay connected.

And I know also you did certain things like part of the Schlukis and Lobavich in a certain period was was after the fall of communism.

And I know you did a a bunch of concerts over there and.

That was a yeah.

That was a very memorable couple of concerts there in Levov and in and in Minsk and Pinsk, I think.

And I remember singing for a little kid from Tripicchek with Comet Alev.

Oh, there's some good memories and Hollywood is very special.

I'm going to Russia, you know, it was like, it was like Mercedes Nefesh going to to.

What year is he talking?

About like noon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the early nuns, I think.

Yeah.

And by the way, now I have an an Umitza that I'm on.

Recently, this young Iman in Florida came out with a story that happened with him.

You know the hostage at Nacham, Nacham Litkowski from Florida.

Yeah, Yeah, I saw that, yeah.

He came from Russia, whatever his mother as a little boy and then he he grew older and he would come to the Rebbe for dollars and for bringing his first labrochem.

Then he stopped coming because he got a job in construction and he's always so dirty.

He didn't feel it.

One time he came Sunday and never gives him the dollar and he says, oh, Vubisto.

And he says to the Rebbe, I I guess I meant I, I live in this, I live here.

I'm in the neighborhood.

They ever said Habas comes finished, why don't you come So he said Rebus A passenged Hobbs was like a clay there.

The Arabic I can't come.

You know, I have a a job in construction.

My my, my clothes are dirty.

I can't come looked at him and said, Com Viduvist Abrikum, I saw the story come as you are, but just come and the story gave me such a such an amazing line.

Like I mean, we know that that ever looks past our exterior.

But to hear from that ever come be the best ever comes like it's such a hopeful line, like we know you're not perfect.

I want to see you anyway.

I I relish I I enjoy just seeing you.

I can look past your shortcomings.

So when I told when I read the story on the spot is manga found it's tour of Kail Bayar.

I comb vidu beast oh berikum com vidu beast and Nachum tells me that this this is making waves all over the world giving people hizak that we know you're not perfect, but come anyway.

Hashem wants to see us, Sheba wants to see us, and it's just a beautiful message.

So why?

Kobe the best ever come.

Why is this?

Why is this story?

How did the Newman?

Why?

I guess I think it touched everybody.

I think everybody can't help but be touched with such a story because it it, it's so it's so what's the right word?

It's, it's so hopeful, it's so positive, it's so beautiful that don't you want to try to be perfect?

Try.

But till you get there, don't let that hold you back.

Don't let your exterior or your even even spiritual shortcomings hold you back, because deep down, you're good.

I think it's.

Connected.

You're a good guy.

I think it's connected to what you said about the first answer you got from the Rabba about.

Chavez, Nyamte.

Chavez and Yamte, I think, I think what you said was that was like a, a kid that the lab showed you 1200%.

So what you're doing, I mean, between the lines I'm reading you were questioning about what you're doing and the lab was saying, OK, you're you're you're, you're part you're part of this.

We're going to give you a job and.

Yeah, Hey, the hey Joyce were were so I mean, first of all, the connection, the connection that you know keeps you connected.

But this idea of of never always sound positive and everything those that was that was but for a young guy to was going into singing.

At that time, singing was not so popular.

I was still a bacher in yeshiva shocking and never found a way to never didn't say what, what are you doing since in Lenin, Masak Naresh, no.

And then for years and years and years and years before every concert after concert albums, what I'm doing, what I'm thinking about, what's the theme, what's the what songs?

And then Sliak mitzvah.

I have the rebel dollars, Australian dollars, British dollars, Israeli shekels.

But I mean, there's a Sliak mitzvah that would send out Sliak mitzvah.

I would notify the rebel that I'm heading out on a trip and he would send out the currency where I where I was going.

That happened often.

I have.

I have a pack of yeah.

OK, so.

Shekels and.

I'm glad you're having this conversation because these are all tradition for me at least, I don't know for others.

But they're heading, they're heading the tradition.

So it's my that to me, that's really a they're absolutely mishtat literally in every in All in all your in the seas.

It's like a.

Yes, very humbling.

Absolutely.

So I I did.

Notice SO.

I noticed throughout from different.

I don't know if we're allowed to say this, but there are other singers also and.

I've.

Noticed that there's it has a place by the rabbit, this concept of the harshba that singers have, whether it's the siasa that I gave to Morecambe David or the the pimentas.

I mean the pimentas have a whole long answer from the rabbit about music which is printed.

Look at the surface and there's a few with more with Moricham and David, I don't know if I'm not to say this, but I I feel like it's sometimes it's a little more bugoli because you're you're coming as a Hassid and a Hassid doesn't make any noise in front of the rabbit.

But Moricham, David, you said there's more.

He's talking and answering and and yes, you see that that was really Miyake the the whole thing.

I think the rabbit believes an Ashkar protest.

So if you have a gift, that's clear.

Ashkar protest if you can use it for, you know, to bring in closer, inspire them with your Matana.

Of course he was for it, Absolutely.

Right.

So today the what is this whole thing that I I see that you're interacting with other people, other singers that are not sure imitated in the mitzvah.

And it looks to me like the way you're doing it is besides just singing with them and collaborating with them, it's it's also there's a in, you know, a fatasayadas that that's being accomplished.

No question.

This is mostly Narutis Row, where we have a lot of concerts there.

Boro Hashem and my, my good friends out there, my, my, my team out there came up with this idea that instead of having another Hassidicia singer at your concerts, what would be the Kedish?

Let's get some Israeli singers and maybe those who have not even, you know, shame Atira mitzvahs, Le Sato.

And the reaction's been amazing.

People are telling me what's about a kid Shashem.

And then of course, the the last one was with Aviv Geffen, who was the head of a total coming from the other side.

Totally.

And people said what a great kid Shashem.

It's I think that's the care of care of Nagina that it, you know, it brings people together.

If you sing together, then you could at least have a a opening to start talking together.

And clearly they're inspired.

They come, they see the Schumer Elam.

It it's it's I think it's very inspiring for them.

I think it reminds them of, you know, who they really are.

And someplace deep down it gets a Kitzel and then a Chamer Can Ajavis.

Last year I put him.

I met a guy in in Los Angeles.

He said to me, your song, Yaakov, I bet I broke off.

I was very much in love with it, She said.

I broke it off and I'm married to a Jewish girl because of that song.

Really.

Clara, Clara de Bourne It's.

Amazing.

Like he heard it or that song he heard it clicked, he heard.

It and was It wasn't easy.

We were.

We were ready to get married.

Then ACS stayed in veg.

I want to go backwards to 770 backwards in time.

So I think this is going to be released after Tishrei, but the the listeners and the viewers are going to have to forgive me because I'm holding Tishrei.

OK.

And that's Shashunda, some pastela with whatever.

Is it something that you want to share from tissue with the Rabba, whether it's TIS, whether it's in Cristeria, whether it's Klal or it's a specific event or something that you want to share?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What can I share with you about Tishri?

I was there to be about Tishri.

I was there to be by Hakkafis.

Some haste, Lambert.

Hess, right?

I'm at Hess, right?

And then have the stroke.

The heart attack I'm at.

The heart attack, so my place was up against the Misrich wall, so I could see the level from from the side right.

I would stand facing Misrich and I would.

See Misrich on the other side of the Arun Kadesh.

Yes, I was on top of the Arun Kadesh.

OK, so I was on to something I told you before I saw in the video that wasn't.

Same frustration?

No but but.

I saw something a certain the front my.

Ring as I stood at the other side of the river, on the left side, up on the bleachers on the other side the might have wall.

Eastern Oh, but the bleachers.

The big bleachers.

Right.

So during our coffers, Lama Tres, I'm looking at it.

Obviously I'm looking and it was during a break, you know, during that when they had they were being Muhammad people for a for a safer Tudor.

And I said to the guy behind me, the rebel look so white.

Look at the rebel's face vicee Devante.

He's so pale as when the whole thing happened.

The rebel sat down.

The whole Balagan broke loose.

They started screaming everybody out of the shoe.

They have to break the windows.

The rebel needs ear.

Get out of shoe.

Get out of shoe.

So I ran out of shul and I ran around the back of 770.

The windows were were still there, colorful windows and I think that too the windows were broken.

I peeked out through the window that was walking out of the shul.

He was holding his sitter.

There was some some people still in the shul who did not leave the shul even though they were told to leave and they were singing.

They were the Yeatsum and I.

Can't.

That was whatever and the and that was making with his hamper down here didn't raise up his hand.

He was he was making with his hand to this song, even though he was experiencing what he was experiencing as we know that it was a severe heart attack, but he was making with his hand down couldn't sorry that I remember clearly.

And then the next day some 3030 of us decided Afghanistan oil.

That was some that was a different one.

A different group.

Different group.

I think maybe I went that night.

Maybe.

Maybe we went the next day.

Next night we went for Hack Office to Queens by Hack Chul.

So Lang isn't.

I see.

So you're talking about some posterior by?

2nd next night, The next night, a day, yeah.

Like a look at time.

Yeah, yeah.

First we walked throughout by Hack Chul to do our coffers.

Then we walked from there to the oil.

I was the only coin in the Today.

There's you know, it was it was locked.

The gate was locked.

It wasn't like today, open, open all the time.

So we all climbed over the gate.

I was the last one in, so I climbed into the circle, jumped into a circle.

We walked to to to the oil and we davened and we walked back.

It was a very long walk.

The Belt Parkway is endless when you walk in it.

I once walked it.

Oh yeah, it took me 4 hours.

Oh, OK.

I remember coming, coming to east in the Parkway, some of the guys had to stop by every bench.

They sat down at every bench, 'cause their feet were swollen.

And it was.

And then as we got closer, we started running today.

What's going on?

And then when the first report we got was that I was feeling better and then I was said shita shita vasimja or something.

I think that was after Havdir other shita Zimbra.

There's something the singing.

The singing is giving.

Oh yeah, the yeah.

The singing singing is giving giving kayak the Simcha.

Because there was a febring in answers.

Usually there are febrings at the end of the yam.

Yeah, yeah.

The the this is in the morning.

In the.

Morning as as as we came back, people were dancing in the shore.

So I think label said that the the singing is giving isn't something like that.

So we felt better that we got good report after our walk to the oil and I think somebody clocked it after that like a 5020 or 30 miles we walked something like that.

But so that was a memorable semchasteria.

What else?

I remember one time I was, I decided to be brave and stand in the in the washing machine or in the dryer, right, right in front of the beam of atkia.

Usually I'm up on bleachers and I I'm going to try to stand down there.

That was the you, the smoke coming up from the crowd.

You firstly, you couldn't put your sitter out like this to say, say anything because there's no room.

So you're like sitting like this.

And the steam was coming up.

It was like it was it was like a being in a in a dryer of Hashem.

I survived and the key is by the day it was was heavenly amazing.

I understand that even even there's other shows in Crown Heights at at Lubavitches with Ave.

and whether whether it was to be Mahaza get to the dish and clothes or whatever because people live there.

But I think everyone yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah.

Yeah, What else?

I mean, I could mention to you that it was Simhasteera, Tofshin, Memhes, Kerchel Bracha, Karagil.

I walked by to get to Kerchel Bracha.

It usually takes a second, you know, And I got my kirstle rock and I'm ready to move on.

And I see some, I thought I saw Debbie's hand, something moving in my direction.

I look back and then I was standing with a bottle and for a moment I, I froze.

I said, Debbie, you showed this is for me.

I didn't say a word, but took a second Debbie, you showed this is for me.

Debbie didn't take it back and they gave me the bottle.

That too to this day gives me tremendous physique that.

Usually the but the that begins with the battle, yes, or other scanning.

Yeah, so that was my my moment of without saying.

You were a buck then, right?

I was a bucker.

I remember walking away and I was like, what?

They gave me a battle.

I was like blown away.

Didn't say a word.

Didn't say a word.

That's Locker and again, nothing at a word, but I took it to me that it was a schnaz hakil mechez, so that gave me a battle.

Every concert is a hakil, so take it you know, and I took it at every concert.

I gave it out to people.

I.

Feel like Mechez is like the beginning when you took off right?

Is that accurate?

Took off.

What do you mean?

I'm saying like the concerts and it's around that time.

Started the mem Olive OH.

OK, so.

So there's already a couple of years that I was singing, but anything particular happened in the Empress that took off Lankensted and he said.

But that was that was a moment that of course I cherished to this day.

They were giving me a bottle.

It's pretty amazing.

So, so what's the message for those?

I mean there's many people that are Schluchem and Ashbeam and the cliche dish and everything like that, but there are those that are not and have a different profession.

What's the message that you have based on what you what you experience from the lab, you know, and utilizing it for as a slickers and as a fat somebody honest as a fat says yadas like what what is the?

I don't.

I'm not following your question.

So what?

What is something that?

What is the this message that the devil was giving you that?

The battle.

You know, in general to to utilise Yurka Shrinus Yeah, for to to to fulfil the the the tasket of Yeah, what what what's your message for other people that are in?

Everyone has a talent.

Everyone has a talent.

As we know the famous saying, if you could teach Olive, teach Olive, everyone has a talent and don't, don't play humble.

That I'm not so talented.

I don't have what to offer.

Everyone has a talent.

Everyone has a gift that you could use to be Mikadov and other you'd whatever that might be.

You know what you have and use it.

Use it.

Don't don't squander your gift.

Havao.

I happen to have a, a gift, a Matana that that's that's global.

So OK, so that's why I'm talking to you because I'm a I'm a global.

I'm a global guy.

But every, every, every teacher who's not on a global level has, you know, the great host to teach and be Mikadov and inspire.

You know that it's use your talent, even though you might not be getting interviewed under their hair on a podcast, but do what you got to do.

You have a talent, use it, use it.

Otherwise it's just squandering Ashka Pratis.

OK I had a question that I guess it's more trivial but I heard it's connected to the lab but.

Is your is your song?

If I knew, was that connected to to the rabbit?

That's that's not true.

No.

OK, I need to get it out of the way.

No, no.

'Cause I met, I once met Markham and David and I asked him if ever says the Rashi, his song about Rashi is something that they hear from the other.

He told me also that that's not accurate.

OK, good.

It's good.

It's good to verify this stuff because, yeah, get out to invent and I can't see Mesa.

Yeah.

OK.

And you and you say you're saying that there's plans to do more than going to have bad.

Based on Hashem.

Also another thing that I another connection with with Lubavitch and you're singing is that the recording of the Rabies capital he got the latter.

It's also done by you.

Yes, Yeah, we have the way back.

I was way back.

Yeah.

I was supposed to be part of that for a while.

Then I decided to retire from that.

Oh, you did a few bad.

No, I was.

I was on the.

VAD I was on.

The vad of choosing.

And yeah, it didn't last too long, but I did.

I did get to do Ki gatlata.

Yeah, I remember the whole year we sang that niggin.

That was the first niggin of the Ferringens, the capital that was chosen.

That was the song for the whole year.

Until I think some.

Songs were better than others.

You know they're about to sit.

You know, go.

Through I think later in and out from the base.

I think it changed the exhaustion and the gula.

Yeah, I mean the early years when Telaszewski, Oliver Solomon would take old and new Gundam and put it to the strip.

Second, it was very popular.

Till today those are very popular.

Bahashem Hassisi and Kayla Kamyushiati and then the Tranine Asfasa.

You know, all these they they worked, yeah, they worked so good.

He was, he was, he was a good chat room.

He's on that, always did.

It I think so.

Interesting.

He was Trevor's.

He's the 1 I think.

He's always doing, He's always doing.

Exactly.

Exactly.

I spent some time with him, too.

Yeah, he's to drive me.

To drive me.

He's to make a minion, right?

That was one of the boys that would I should have that would go every day.

Tonight nice good feel so did this host Baish then yeah nice that and then now that was a really a popular area but back slap push slap push back then there was you know uncharted territory for for Khabad right how was there was always there exactly it.

Was the Shoal in the Blackfish?

He had there, yeah.

And.

By Rosenfeld Mother Taylor, my principal by Rosenfeld was not my age, quite older than me.

He.

Told me, but yeah.

Yeah, but I have, I have memories of Elter Hasidim who are nice to me and Elter said who didn't say a word to me, but those who did made a very warm impression.

You know, in my heart, Rosenfeld was one of them.

He would call me time to time and he would say Avremo the Habadnagunim.

You're making it famous in the whole world.

Keep it up, keep it up, keep it up.

I have very few, very few pictures in my office of performances or or people.

I don't, I don't, I don't put that on the walls or and I have a few pictures of altar Hassidim who weren't kind to me.

One is if Altar Roosevelt give me a big, big hug and a kush at one of the dinners or something.

And then another picture of the Elte de Hassid and I forget his name.

Remotel, Remotel de Shekhet with Aven Gustavin Hebrewjas with Rabbi Ghirari.

After he, he would come to my concerts.

He was in his 90s.

He was a big fan.

He would come to my concerts.

We just had a picture of him in the head.

It was Oh yeah, He wrote an article about Mitchell Cogan.

So in there we had a we had a picture of the mud in in Russia before he came.

Here nice so the picture of him kissing in my hand after a concert.

Those are two two I have in my office that are hanging in my office and Mendel for the fast was nice to me as he would say Tanya.

Tanya yeah, I mean it means for a young bucker have altered A hosted say I listen to your music precious priceless.

Then those who didn't didn't acknowledge or say a word to me, but those who did.

From what I from what I've heard of the Mendel fortevance sounds sounds right.

I think he had a very.

Very Tanya.

Tanya, yes.

So these are people who made an impression even though they were much older, mentioned all the Tasers.

So, Robert Rosenfeld in my home, It's nice to be acknowledged by an elder statesman.

Yeah, who are you?

Who are the teachers then in the Altera?

My teachers was a Villa Heim Redblatter by writers.

So his mom is new.

Of my angle this.

Is the beginning.

Oh, but much, much later.

I'm a little younger than you few years.

Of my angle, yeah, 'cause he taught for many, many years, then he moved to Pittsburgh, right?

He moved.

He's, I don't think he's alive.

No, I understand.

But he.

Oh, afterwards, Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, Rabbi.

Rabbi Vishetsky.

Rabbi Yeah, all all the heavy stroll.

Friedman was ready in the Zao Pinacore.

A Pinterest pinacorf then, and then a Zao.

Rabbi Majeski came along with same Majeski right from the younger.

He was the younger Mashpee.

The younger Mashpeeim started started by Galitsky.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, you know the.

Yeah.

The cream of the crab.

Yeah, All right.

So I think people will have.

I know I.

Hope so.

From from this conversation open.

Inspired convi the best of Recon.

That's the best inspiration.

You know that I don't know, one of the camps this summer, I think, and it's all Detroit made a camp song about it as well.

Oh yeah.

So it's entering multiple good forms of indigena good.

You have something to do with.

That I hope so.

I hope so.

All right.

And I guess we can say since you're a Schliach Davidson, they should be able to do it for a very long time.

And I for when I was at an event, one of the mostest made an event that you were singing at, I was very, I was blown away by the fact that your voice is aging like fine wine.

So.

But the bracha to keep singing for many many more year.

But but the the subjects, the the attitude should change.

That should be part of your bracha.

Instead of thinking about atmosai, we should be thinking about finally the the the text should change.

And you even have a song already.

I'm ready.

We're ready to go.

We're ready, ready to roll, ready, ready to go.

It should be taken from you're, you're, you're a Gullah, right?

Because that's the Helix and and and and Gullah.

The Aleph.

OK.

And Gullah's headmen.

Gullah's met.

They're heading.

Met that they're heading.

So you should have a flock in your slickers.

Mozer design.

Amazon Zingen.

Amazon, the head in the Zingen.

I mean, I mean.