This was filmed minutes after they and the rest of the Jewish world found out about the meron tragedy. The decision was made to continue filming and there was def. And more somber note and the performers were thrown off their groove. This would explain why the performance was "off" in the beginning.
Yeah they have to almost force themselves to sing. It’s not authentic. But, this live event was almost cancelled as to this tragedy in Israel that happened then.
I wish I could say "I can't imagine", but I think all of us who remember that time, actually could imagine what it must have been like to have to perform that night. That night (and the next who knows how long) will forever be etched in my mind. Also, something I'm thinking, is that for them it might have been even harder than the average Jew since they're from Israel and just "happened" to not be there at that time.
This comes to show that we shouldn’t judge off the bat. It was a live event that was streamed. Live event was almost canceled due to Meron stampede tradgety that happened in Israel at that time. Literally that time. So, they probably weren’t in any gusto to sing or feel it and be so authentic.
This performance took place in NY right as a terrible tragedy took the lives of 50 ppl back home (for the performers) in Israel. The mood was quite sad and the singers clearly weren't really feeling like performing.
You never disappoint. Love your commenting! Keep it up, can't wait for more. This was a streaming online event with a small crowd. Review The Strumz Band - Umar Rabbi Akiva
‘Nafshi’, means my soul. The lyrics of the song in English would probably translate to: my soul delights in the shadow of your hand, oh to know all the mysteries of your secrets. Please May my words be sweet upon you, because my soul longs for you. This song talks is a sort of prayer to god
They both live in Israel, but have different audiences generally. Motty is chasidic although he does have many fans of all types. It is a very interesting duet because they have very different singing styles and music styles
I hope viewers of this video look at the comments so they see the reason for this performance not being their best. It was an extremely extremely sad time for all of us Jews. And quite terrifying as well, since most of the victims of the tragedy were not even known yet at the time of this performance, and the next victim could literally be anyone you know. (And even just knowing that there were so many victims, even if you end up not knowing any of them, because the Jewish nation is so close knit and family-like, it was terribly sad and scary no matter who the next victim would be.)
Hatzolah is an unbelievable volunteer medical emergency organization that began in New York and now has branches in orthodox communities around the world. The service is completely free, so they have fundraiser events such as this, and the community reciprocates by donating. 1) Nafshi means "my soul" and this is-as you guessed-another emotional song 2) both of these men are from Israel 3) I agree, not the best performance from either one of them
Hello Portuguese Pai, we are enjoying your reviews and comments. It's great to have someone neutral and objective giving positive criticism and opinions. This is not only entertaining, but gives an added dimension to understanding this genre and niche of music. You are invited to my channel to check out some recent videos of Mordechai Ben David, in a concert celebrating his Golden Anniversary (50 years) of Chassidic singing. Feel free to use footage and review.
Nafshi/נפשי means "My Soul" And yes this event was a charity event for the Jewish volunteer ambulance force, Hatzola, (ha - "zz" as in pizza - uh - luh) which is in every major Orthodox area. They're amazing and have an extremely fast reponse time, but they need funding, so this event was made to help a lot with that
The choir on here is the same choir that played on the backing track of the video you reacted to of mine. the Zemiros Choir. I sent you a clip to try of those guys.
Yes. It's a donation event. And they have a live audience. As well as being streamed live. And yes they are well-known songs. And yes they have a song together. And they are both from Israel. And they have this song recorded as a track Hatzalah is a volunteer ambulance service that provides free emergency medical services started in NYC and now they have branches all over the world and they treat Jews and non-Jews whoever calls for help
The reason there’s the lyrics behind them is cuz the song is in Hebrew not our first language so people can sometimes misunderstand the words of the song This is to help them learn the actual words
Motty ("Mu +Tee" short for Mordechai) is a Chassidic vocalist with an angelic voice. Ishay (Ee + shy) is more of a religious pop singer. The lyrics are actually from Jewish prayers. It is sung often at the Shabbat table and is a really moving melody (Nigen). Nafshi "My Soul"
@@PortuguesePai I think everyone on this thread is fine with your pronounciation or mispronounciation as it might be. We are very appreciative of you and your taking the time and effort to produce these positive videos. Kol ha"kovod!
This was a live stream charity online event. It took place in middle of covid, so no live audience. This isn't the best of both of those singers. Interesting match. Thanks for your videos, keep them coming.
One thing I notice here as well is the accent/dialect difference. Ishay is singing using the Sephardic Dialect pronunciation (What I call "Makhber") while Motty is singing using the Ashkenazic Dialect pronunciation (What I call "HaLevi") Which I find funny because Halevi was Sephardic and the Rabbi who wrote Makhberet was Ashkenazic.
This is avery rare combo to see, two singer from very veryyy different ends of well.. everything. Different genres, different crowds, very very far away as far as musical history, the only connection is that they are both religious and its a big part of their brand, but its very likely they didnt know each other before this duet. It seems like its an event of donations for hazala(not sure about the spelling) Which is a worldwide organization of volunteers, the volunteers are 99% ultra Orthodox, and they are allways coming to rescue and give aid and medical or other life saving services, all for free. In israel the entire secular/other religious communities (not ultra Orthodox) have become familiar with the volunteers because the allways show up for any terror attack or other disasters. They never make any distinction between helping a member of their community, helping secular jew, or non jew, they simply come and save lives. And they are very good at it. And in a way this duet is a very good parallel to this meeting point, those two different comminities allmost never meet each other, but yet they meet each other every day. Passing by, polite, while their cultural world is so different, so this is weird, they tried, but, its too far apart :) They probably chose to make it thinking some magic will happen on stage, and maybe it could have happen if they planned it better, motty is very far from ishai's world, isjai is more centered in a way. They could have brought so many other hassidic singers who are less "extreme" in their musical style. Motty is unique, he is full on hasidic, even his outfits. All of what motty is as an artist - is completely foreign to ishai and his crowd, and frankly, its foreign even to parts of the ultra Orthodox folks. I will search for better duets like this which didn't end up so badly. I will link it if ill find :) And thankyou, you are amazing ❤ love to watch your reviews.
And i just saw in the comments that this was during the stampede at miron, which explains alot, they seem out of it. Makes sense. It was a horrible disaster... A very long and confusing one. 😢
6:35 - These 2 singers represent 2 different worlds. Ishay Ribo is more Israeli while Motty Steinmitz is more Hasidic. Both are "Israeli", but some elements of Hasidic culture are different. People like Motty may even resemble the Hasidic Jews found in Buenos Aires and Montreal despite all 3 places being far from each other and having a different culture around them.
I agree the performance was sloppy. Both are great artists and have performed together numerous times. This particular performance came on the heels of an awful event in Israel where a popular annual holiday celebration became massively overcrowded resulting in the crushing deaths of about 30 people, I could see them getting thrown by the tragedy.
Nafshi means My Soul. My soul desired the shelter of Your hand, to know every mystery of Your secret. May my prayer be sweet to You, for my soul shall pine for You. נפשי חמדה בצל ידיך, לדעת כל רז סודיך. יערב נא שיחי עליך, כי נפשי תערוג אליך.
Yes agree. He is a ballad type singer and he is unreal. Popular amongst religious and secular Jews. Neither one is singing their best at all. But the circumstances explain it
You should check out the original. It has 11 million views on TH-cam. th-cam.com/video/-6hnYAEUV2M/w-d-xo.html This particular video isn't the greatest. I think you'll enjoy it on the original. The collab here is really an out of the box idea. Their voices definitely aren't complimenting each other naturally. And that was the art of the collaboration.
Hey thee reason ishay ain't so good here Is couse, there was a terrible Jewish tragedy that happened in israel right before they got on stage (this video) in the USA where 45 people got killed after stumbling upon each other trying to exit, how emotional it was for everyone it was even more emotional for ishay considering the artist that he is.
4:09 - Nafshi is from the root-word "Nefesh". And it means soul. "Nafshi" might mean "my soul". P.S. The Arabic translation of the root-word is the same.
I figured, but I've heard both these singers before, and their live performances have been amazing. I'd much rather listen to Live versions of these videos, over recorded/produced videos....BUT I can see how the original could have been better. All in all, wasn't terrible
@@PortuguesePai Events like these never sound amazing. I've watched a bunch of these livestreamed concerts and they cannot even compare to how regular concerts sound. So they 100% would've sounded better at an actual concert.
@@PortuguesePai you're right. But as @cool things pointed out, this one is different, because it's straight from a live stream (fundraising event). Not so by the other live videos you covered, they went through thorough editing and mixing.
You are getting mixed messaging about the pronunciation of Motty’s name because there are multiple pronunciations. There is variation in pronunciation of Hebrew across communities. In some communities (including Motty’s) the name Motty (a nickname for Mordechai) is pronounced “Mooty” - but the ‘oo’ is short, as in “look” or “good” not long as in “roof”. In others it is pronounced “Motty” with a short “o”.
@@PortuguesePai No no. I think we all appreciate you trying to get them right. I just finished watching your Hanan video and you nearly got the Hebrew words spot on :)
BTW, Motty's name is pronounced "MO" (as in stop) and TTY (as in tea) Love your reactions and could you please do a reaction to We are a Miracle by Yaakov Shwekey I'm sure you and everyone else will really enjoy that one Thanks 😀
The audio isn't great it seems. the original song was a great hit BTW. I think you would love this live wedding from motty (since you asked motty is short for Mordechai) th-cam.com/video/U0IP3xYeweE/w-d-xo.html
Listen to the original studio track. It sounds much better. They do sound a little off here. There's something nice about how there voices are so different but surprisingly they do sound nice together. I think this was just a bad recording.
@@nevergiveup6841 It's obvious. For one, they sound exactly like the recording, which has a lot of autotune and voice effects. They just lip sync to the songs.
This was filmed minutes after they and the rest of the Jewish world found out about the meron tragedy. The decision was made to continue filming and there was def. And more somber note and the performers were thrown off their groove. This would explain why the performance was "off" in the beginning.
Yeah they have to almost force themselves to sing. It’s not authentic. But, this live event was almost cancelled as to this tragedy in Israel that happened then.
Oh, that makes so much sense. I can’t imagine performing in those conditions
Makes a lot of sense
I wish I could say "I can't imagine", but I think all of us who remember that time, actually could imagine what it must have been like to have to perform that night. That night (and the next who knows how long) will forever be etched in my mind.
Also, something I'm thinking, is that for them it might have been even harder than the average Jew since they're from Israel and just "happened" to not be there at that time.
@@annonimiss6422 and they probably knew some people who were there and didn't know if they were alright
Thanks for reacting to this video from our channel! There are a bunch of other great Live performances on our "Jewish Singers" channel.
This comes to show that we shouldn’t judge off the bat. It was a live event that was streamed. Live event was almost canceled due to Meron stampede tradgety that happened in Israel at that time. Literally that time. So, they probably weren’t in any gusto to sing or feel it and be so authentic.
This performance took place in NY right as a terrible tragedy took the lives of 50 ppl back home (for the performers) in Israel. The mood was quite sad and the singers clearly weren't really feeling like performing.
You never disappoint. Love your commenting! Keep it up, can't wait for more.
This was a streaming online event with a small crowd.
Review The Strumz Band - Umar Rabbi Akiva
Motty hatzadik
‘Nafshi’, means my soul. The lyrics of the song in English would probably translate to: my soul delights in the shadow of your hand, oh to know all the mysteries of your secrets. Please May my words be sweet upon you, because my soul longs for you.
This song talks is a sort of prayer to god
They both live in Israel, but have different audiences generally. Motty is chasidic although he does have many fans of all types. It is a very interesting duet because they have very different singing styles and music styles
I hope viewers of this video look at the comments so they see the reason for this performance not being their best. It was an extremely extremely sad time for all of us Jews. And quite terrifying as well, since most of the victims of the tragedy were not even known yet at the time of this performance, and the next victim could literally be anyone you know. (And even just knowing that there were so many victims, even if you end up not knowing any of them, because the Jewish nation is so close knit and family-like, it was terribly sad and scary no matter who the next victim would be.)
This clip just shows how much we need to appreciate when it is a real success and to realize that it's just not in our hands
nafshi means my soul. I'm sure someone already said that.
also unrelated I love being the 100th like, such a fun number 🤩
i was there live! what an amazing performance!!
My soul is greedy in the shadow of your hands,
To know your every secret.
I will pray for you,
Because my soul will yearn for you.
Hatzolah is an unbelievable volunteer medical emergency organization that began in New York and now has branches in orthodox communities around the world.
The service is completely free, so they have fundraiser events such as this, and the community reciprocates by donating.
1) Nafshi means "my soul" and this is-as you guessed-another emotional song
2) both of these men are from Israel
3) I agree, not the best performance from either one of them
Performance was compromised because of the Meron tragedy unfolding. Concert was nearly canceled
Hello Portuguese Pai, we are enjoying your reviews and comments. It's great to have someone neutral and objective giving positive criticism and opinions. This is not only entertaining, but gives an added dimension to understanding this genre and niche of music. You are invited to my channel to check out some recent videos of Mordechai Ben David, in a concert celebrating his Golden Anniversary (50 years) of Chassidic singing. Feel free to use footage and review.
Nafshi/נפשי means "My Soul"
And yes this event was a charity event for the Jewish volunteer ambulance force, Hatzola, (ha - "zz" as in pizza - uh - luh) which is in every major Orthodox area. They're amazing and have an extremely fast reponse time, but they need funding, so this event was made to help a lot with that
The choir on here is the same choir that played on the backing track of the video you reacted to of mine. the Zemiros Choir. I sent you a clip to try of those guys.
we want more of Avraham fried live
Yes. It's a donation event. And they have a live audience. As well as being streamed live.
And yes they are well-known songs.
And yes they have a song together. And they are both from Israel. And they have this song recorded as a track
Hatzalah is a volunteer ambulance service that provides free emergency medical services started in NYC and now they have branches all over the world and they treat Jews and non-Jews whoever calls for help
The reason there’s the lyrics behind them is cuz the song is in Hebrew not our first language so people can sometimes misunderstand the words of the song
This is to help them learn the actual words
You're on point with your observations! Who ever produced this started them on the wrong Note.
Motty ("Mu +Tee" short for Mordechai) is a Chassidic vocalist with an angelic voice. Ishay (Ee + shy) is more of a religious pop singer. The lyrics are actually from Jewish prayers. It is sung often at the Shabbat table and is a really moving melody (Nigen). Nafshi "My Soul"
Really appreciate the break down for the pronunciation of the names. I'm sure it's rough hearing me butcher them over and over 😂
@@PortuguesePai I think everyone on this thread is fine with your pronounciation or mispronounciation as it might be. We are very appreciative of you and your taking the time and effort to produce these positive videos. Kol ha"kovod!
Listen to the recorded version. insane!!!!
This was a live stream charity online event. It took place in middle of covid, so no live audience. This isn't the best of both of those singers. Interesting match. Thanks for your videos, keep them coming.
It's not a professional released video. Just a recording of a live event.
People do know the lyrics generally. They put it in the background just as a design element.
One thing I notice here as well is the accent/dialect difference. Ishay is singing using the Sephardic Dialect pronunciation (What I call "Makhber") while Motty is singing using the Ashkenazic Dialect pronunciation (What I call "HaLevi")
Which I find funny because Halevi was Sephardic and the Rabbi who wrote Makhberet was Ashkenazic.
This is avery rare combo to see, two singer from very veryyy different ends of well.. everything. Different genres, different crowds, very very far away as far as musical history, the only connection is that they are both religious and its a big part of their brand, but its very likely they didnt know each other before this duet.
It seems like its an event of donations for hazala(not sure about the spelling)
Which is a worldwide organization of volunteers, the volunteers are 99% ultra Orthodox, and they are allways coming to rescue and give aid and medical or other life saving services, all for free.
In israel the entire secular/other religious communities (not ultra Orthodox) have become familiar with the volunteers because the allways show up for any terror attack or other disasters. They never make any distinction between helping a member of their community, helping secular jew, or non jew, they simply come and save lives. And they are very good at it.
And in a way this duet is a very good parallel to this meeting point, those two different comminities allmost never meet each other, but yet they meet each other every day.
Passing by, polite, while their cultural world is so different, so this is weird, they tried, but, its too far apart :)
They probably chose to make it thinking some magic will happen on stage, and maybe it could have happen if they planned it better, motty is very far from ishai's world, isjai is more centered in a way.
They could have brought so many other hassidic singers who are less "extreme" in their musical style. Motty is unique, he is full on hasidic, even his outfits. All of what motty is as an artist - is completely foreign to ishai and his crowd, and frankly, its foreign even to parts of the ultra Orthodox folks. I will search for better duets like this which didn't end up so badly. I will link it if ill find :)
And thankyou, you are amazing ❤ love to watch your reviews.
And i just saw in the comments that this was during the stampede at miron, which explains alot, they seem out of it. Makes sense. It was a horrible disaster... A very long and confusing one. 😢
Their original recording of this song together is much much better
It's a soulful song not really a sad one. It's telling god how much we want to be close to him.
6:35 - These 2 singers represent 2 different worlds. Ishay Ribo is more Israeli while Motty Steinmitz is more Hasidic. Both are "Israeli", but some elements of Hasidic culture are different. People like Motty may even resemble the Hasidic Jews found in Buenos Aires and Montreal despite all 3 places being far from each other and having a different culture around them.
you gotta check out A Million Dreams sung by Mordechai Shapiro & Shulem Lemmer
I agree the performance was sloppy. Both are great artists and have performed together numerous times. This particular performance came on the heels of an awful event in Israel where a popular annual holiday celebration became massively overcrowded resulting in the crushing deaths of about 30 people, I could see them getting thrown by the tragedy.
Yes I remember this it was same day as Meron tragedy… very sad day
Not a great live performance i agree
Nafshi means my soul. Not a sad song, it is serious, about God. This is both of their song and they sound very very nice in the real recorded version
hatzola is a jewish ambulance company they made a charity campaign
Non profit organization
Nafshi means ‘my soul’
Nafshi means My Soul.
My soul desired the shelter of Your hand,
to know every mystery of Your secret.
May my prayer be sweet to You,
for my soul shall pine for You.
נפשי חמדה בצל ידיך,
לדעת כל רז סודיך.
יערב נא שיחי עליך,
כי נפשי תערוג אליך.
There's also a beautiful nafshi by Shulem lemmer
I agree with you..something in the audio didn't work. Both are amazing professional singers.
Ishay (pronounced ee-shy) does sound like he was under the weather here...
Motty is pronounced muh (as in munch)-tea (as in the drink)
Yes agree. He is a ballad type singer and he is unreal. Popular amongst religious and secular Jews. Neither one is singing their best at all. But the circumstances explain it
You should check out the original. It has 11 million views on TH-cam.
th-cam.com/video/-6hnYAEUV2M/w-d-xo.html
This particular video isn't the greatest. I think you'll enjoy it on the original.
The collab here is really an out of the box idea. Their voices definitely aren't complimenting each other naturally. And that was the art of the collaboration.
I agree. First time hearing this one, could be better.
You can tell that the Meron tragedy affected their performance. Must have been hard just to even walk in there
they sang together on the recording of this song
Claramente no es de sus mejores interpretaciones, pero se entiende el porque, Motty transmite tanta paz.
Hey thee reason ishay ain't so good here Is couse, there was a terrible Jewish tragedy that happened in israel right before they got on stage (this video) in the USA where 45 people got killed after stumbling upon each other trying to exit, how emotional it was for everyone it was even more emotional for ishay considering the artist that he is.
Nafshi means "my soul"
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4:09 - Nafshi is from the root-word "Nefesh". And it means soul. "Nafshi" might mean "my soul".
P.S. The Arabic translation of the root-word is the same.
The recommendation obviously was for the original song, not this live performance, which indeed wasn't the best...
I figured, but I've heard both these singers before, and their live performances have been amazing. I'd much rather listen to Live versions of these videos, over recorded/produced videos....BUT I can see how the original could have been better. All in all, wasn't terrible
@@PortuguesePai Events like these never sound amazing. I've watched a bunch of these livestreamed concerts and they cannot even compare to how regular concerts sound.
So they 100% would've sounded better at an actual concert.
@@PortuguesePai you're right. But as @cool things pointed out, this one is different, because it's straight from a live stream (fundraising event). Not so by the other live videos you covered, they went through thorough editing and mixing.
Nafshi means my soul
You have to review Pinky Weber Ezkero.
Ya this is a good song and a good voice to make a video this will pump the channel even more
You are getting mixed messaging about the pronunciation of Motty’s name because there are multiple pronunciations.
There is variation in pronunciation of Hebrew across communities.
In some communities (including Motty’s) the name Motty (a nickname for Mordechai) is pronounced “Mooty” - but the ‘oo’ is short, as in “look” or “good” not long as in “roof”. In others it is pronounced “Motty” with a short “o”.
its just the way motty sings
another one from Motty I would recommend is from a colab with Shuli Rand, a master piece.
th-cam.com/video/IMGsMZxoAdU/w-d-xo.html
your comments and feed back are on point. Not their best performance to say the least...
i think this was livestreamed
I wonder if you hear the difference in their dialect, that would be very interesting to know.
Motty lives in Israel, he's very popular there.
Checkout Mordechai Ben David 1998 Ohel Concert "Someday"
the studio recording of this song sound better than this recording
To help you with pronunciation of their names:
Ishay - (ee - shy)
Motty - (muh - tee)
Thanks so much, really appreciate the breakdown/help with that haha. I'm sure people are cringing at me trying to pronounce their names.
@@PortuguesePai No no. I think we all appreciate you trying to get them right. I just finished watching your Hanan video and you nearly got the Hebrew words spot on :)
The lyrics is just part of the background effects not real reason
Nafshi means my soul. I think basically saying my soul yearns to be close to Gd.
you should react to halev sheli by ishay ribo if you havent already
can you do halev sheli by omer adam and ishy ribo
"Nafshi" mean soul.
you asked many times, most of those songs are "craving" not "sad".
Where was I able to vote?
Do ahrele samet and en3rgy band for some real traditional chasidic wedding music.
King David wrote the lyrics
The is called "zemiros"
Please can you Reaction to the song
"izon"
(Balance) of Hanan Ben Ari?
Yes it was for charity
BTW, Motty's name is pronounced "MO" (as in stop) and TTY (as in tea)
Love your reactions and could you please do a reaction to We are a Miracle by Yaakov Shwekey
I'm sure you and everyone else will really enjoy that one
Thanks 😀
as you can hear in the end when Ishay says "motty steinmetz!"
This was taken down an octave for easier live vocals
Probably just wasn't rehearsed enough...
Check out simcha friedman yitgadal
The audio isn't great it seems. the original song was a great hit BTW.
I think you would love this live wedding from motty (since you asked motty is short for Mordechai) th-cam.com/video/U0IP3xYeweE/w-d-xo.html
Listen to the original studio track. It sounds much better. They do sound a little off here. There's something nice about how there voices are so different but surprisingly they do sound nice together. I think this was just a bad recording.
This was after the Meron tragedy, so they would have been thrown off a bit.
Both great singers, but I think it sounded pitchy at points
Check out kinderlach
The Kinderlach never sing live. Even "live" concerts are prerecorded for them.
@@shira613 how do you know it's prerecorded
@@shira613 they bearly have music videos
@@nevergiveup6841 It's obvious. For one, they sound exactly like the recording, which has a lot of autotune and voice effects. They just lip sync to the songs.
Lyrics you can understand good rhymes check out Ari Lesser
You listened to the wrong video of this song
"wrong"
Ishay and motty are both from israel. motty is chassidic
Video 6 of asking for Joey newcomb or Baruch levine
Motty is pronounced "Mud Tea" if you say it quickly
Those 2 should not be singing together. They pull each other down
Nafshi means my soul
nafshi means "my soul"