Watch: Yaakov Shwekey Shares ‘the Story Behind the Song’ During Visit to ArtScroll

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Singer Yaakov Shwekey traveled this week to visit the headquarters of ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications in Rahway, NJ, where he was interviewed at ArtScroll Studios by Mishpacha‘s Rabbi Yisroel Besser.

Afterward, Shwekey was given a tour of the ArtScroll bindery and warehouse by ArtScroll President Rabbi Gedaliah Zlotowitz, Rabbi Aharon Zlotowitz and Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger. Photos of the tour can be seen below.

Shwekey, accompanied by his friend, David Hillel, was fascinated by the massive ArtScroll operation, intrigued by every facet of the production of the world’s premier Judaica publishing house.

Of course, the conversation at some point turned to music, and at one point, Rabbi Hisiger mentioned the song “Vehareinu,” which, it turns out, is one of Shwekey’s all-time favorites. Shwekey, in fact, recorded it on his kumzitz album (listen here) and Rabbi Hisiger remarked that the song had previously been recorded on Simchatone 2 (listen here) and Avraham Fried’s Around The Year 3.

Seizing the moment, Shwekey proceeded to share a fascinating Hashgocha-filled anecdote – never having been told before – about how he first discovered the identity of the song’s composer, a detail that had eluded him till then. Shwekey’s telling of the anecdote was caught on camera.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Me kiamcha yisroel. Kllal Yisroel is great! We are made up of great caring people. The chesed that Kllal Yisroel does is unbelievable. May HKB”H end all suffering and bring about the geula shleima bimheira!

  2. Go ahead Matzav. Glorify a singer as if he’s gods gift to humanity. He sings . Yipee doo.
    Not sure what you have to gain from this nonsense, but probably some side benefit as advetorial. Just what I’ve learned to expect from Matzav.

    • SINGING ELEVATES THE SOUL .KING DAVID PLAYED HIS INSTRUMENT..I HAZAN/CANTOR LEADS THE K’HAL IN PRAYER..AND YOU..WHAT DO YOU CONTRIBUTE TO JUDAISM……? OHHH SORRY..YOU VOTED FOR BIDEN AND CLINTON AND THE RADICAL JEW HATING LEFTISTS ……WOW..SORRY I DIDNT REALIZE WHAT A GENIUS YOU ARE.

  3. We appreciate his talents, we don’t ‘glorify’ him. When was the last time you did a chessed for someone you didn’t know who was in the hospital at 10:30 at night?? Geez… Sounds like you’re jealous

  4. That’s a most disgusting and cynical comment. Why all the hatred. Yaakov Shwekey is a man who learns Torah, is mesameach a sick woman, and is one of the founders of SCHI in Lakewood, and all you have to say is bitter rhetoric. Go learn some musses!

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