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Baruch Levine & Joey Newcomb at the Oorah Auction | Kumzitz & Stories pt. 2

Oorah

Baruch Levine and Joey Newcomb sing about Torah and learning, joined by Sara Fox sharing her story.

What’s said in this track

The opening of this track, in Oorah’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] what's new behind the iron wall in this letter i'll write to you of life as a freebie the day begins rather the day begins rather early sweet sounds of children learning [Music] your place my soul a jew truly jew truly exiled but yet a jew of courage whose faith shall never die soon the great walls will replace the iron curtain still i wish i wish you could be here my poor and lonely brother i want to call up the ice of joey [Applause] mind your seat joey because i want to do the song joey needs his mic this was mine before you needs his mic this was mine before you want us i'll switch with you right now that's good it's good [Music] joey want to sing the song about our zadies because so many of us we take for granted where we come from who our zadies were this song by moshe yes also from off the record we got two minutes let's do it joe we can do this in two minutes two minutes for my sadie [Music] my zadie lived with us in my parents home there we go he used to laugh he put me on his knees and he spoke about his life in poland he spoke but with a bitter memory he spoke about the soldiers who would beat him they laughed at him they tore his long black coat and he spoke about a synagogue that they burnt down and the crying that was heard and the crying that was heard beneath the smoke everyone [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh his eyes lit up when he will

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  1. 0:01[Music] what's new behind the iron wall in this letter i'll write to you of life
  2. 2:07needs his mic this was mine before you want us i'll switch with you right now
  3. 4:13oh his eyes lit up when he will teach me torah he taught me every line
  4. 6:32[Music] friday [Music] of our children
  5. 8:34such professional staff she ran the zip line with such patience with such attention to safety
  6. 11:09role torre mates had played in her life in giving her that injection of learning that
  7. 13:11like three times a week now it's like more chill we just text face time whenever
  8. 15:18let me see the beauty [Music]
  9. 17:35the whole town came and filled the narrow stream oh and they sang and [Music] and
  10. 19:46[Music]

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