OUR STORY (audio) - Shaindy Plotzker | For Women and Girls Only
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2023
- Theres something about who we are as the Jewish People. In the face of darkness, we have always found the ability to rise. It’s who we are, it’s who we always have been, and it’s who we always will be. Just look at the pages of Our Story.
After the tragic events that occurred on October 7th, I, was frozen. I couldn’t find a perspective. I couldn’t find strength. After a week or so of struggling, I was reminded of a conversation that I had with an incredible woman a year ago, a Holocaust survivor and woman of strength, Bobby Itzkowitz. I had asked her “How? How did you stand up after what you went through? How did you find the faith, the strength, to continue?”
She looked at me with the warmest eyes and replied softly “Shaifele, it’s who we are.” She pointed to the veins on her arms and said “It’s in our blood to be strong, even when it feels impossible. We always find strength because that’s the bloodline of the Jewish people”.
I realized then, what one of our main powers is and always has been… and where it comes from. When Avraham Avinu made the impossible choice to give up his son, when Rachel Imenu made the choice to give up the chance to marry her husband, when Esther Hamalka stood up for her people, when our grandparents made a choice to do everything to try and survive the Holocaust… each time they made a choice to be strong, I imagine as though a drop of golden blood was let into their veins. And with each courageous decision, with each moment of strength, that golden bloodline grew more powerful over the years. And so… “what’s in our veins is flowing gold.”
It’s who we are. We are strong, even when we don’t know how to be.
With that thought, I went to my piano and wrote this song to be a perspective shift for myself. It only feels right to share it with you as it began to give me so much chizuk, and I hope that it does the same for you.
In any moment of pain, of darkness, any time you may have to face the unthinkable, I pray and hope that you find the strength, even when it seems impossible. And when you can’t, dig deep into the archives of our story, and take your strength from our ancestors.
We are hurting. We are bleeding.
And yet, it is genetically embedded within us to somehow find strength in the face of the unthinkable.
As we approach the holiday of Chanukah, a time of miracles, I’m reminded of yet another chapter in Our Story. In the face of dark, we stood up, and our sheer faith, courage and strength wrote what became yet another chapter of perseverance in the Jewish story, a storybook of strength.
It is my hope and deepest wish that this song provides strength for you, in any moment that you may need it.
All my love,
Shaindy
Credits:
Lyrics by Shaindy Plotzker
Composed by Shaindy Plotzker & Eli Gerstner
Arranged, Produced, Recorded, and Mixed by Eli Gerstner (EG Productions)
Guitars: Avi Singolda
Drums: Avi Avidani
Piano & Synths: Eli Gerstner
Synths: Shai Barak
Strings: SPN
Music Preparation: Avremi G (A Notable Idea)
Cover Art: Eliana Thalheim (Flash Of Design)
Lyrics:
It’s like the air is filled with pain
And the world will never be the same
again,
It’s like there’s ashes in the sky
And the fear that’s in my eyes
Has got nowhere to go
How can the world go on and on?
How can I stand up tall when every bone is screaming?
How can we go and sing our song?
How can we live our lives when every soul is bleeding?
It’s the story that we’ve always told
What’s in our veins is flowing gold
We’ve made it through
the ages
It’s the story of our fortitude
Our trembling hands will write it
as we turn the tear stained pages
It's like we’ve been here once before
With our armor on the floor
Can we bring out the lion, roar
It's like the whisper of our past
Hands us something that
we didn’t know we had
And so we will go on and on
And we will stand up tall
when every bone is screaming
And we will live to sing our song
And we will fight for truth
when every soul is bleeding
Because its the story that we’ve always told
What’s in our veins is flowing gold
We’ve made it through
the ages
It’s the story of our fortitude
Our trembling hands will write it
as we turn the tear stained pages
Father up high
Please can you hear my cry
I need you more than ever
I need you more than ever
Father up high
Please can you hear my cry
Don’t want more tear stained pages
Can you wake me when it changes?
Father up high
Please can you hear my cry
I need you more than ever
I need you more than ever
Father up high
Please can you hear my cry
I know you’re right beside me
I know you’ll never leave me
So we wipe our tears
and stand up tall
We will be ok
We will not fall
A nation of survivors
And this story’s our legacy
How we find our way to victory
Father, we believe
So we wipe our tears
and stand up tall
We will be ok
We will not fall
A nation of survivors
And this story’s our legacy
We’ll find our way to victory
A nation of
A nation of
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This song is so beatiful🤍🤍love you Shaindy 🖤
wow shaindyyyyy !!!!! this is a stunning song!!!!!! i live in israel and it really moved me!!!! you write sooo welll!!! and the music is a nother level!!!! keep bringing us stunning music to sing and dance to! NEVER STOP!!!!! your the best !!! for realll!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Beyond♥️♥️♥️ keep spreading the strength and the beauty Shaindy ♥️
Shaidy this song brings me to tears
I’m honored.
Shaindy!!! You're awesome ❤❤❤
i so excited to listen this song it wos so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me and my friends recorded this because the words are absolutely insane!!!!! Your really talented!!!!
shaindy such a beautiful song I live in Israel and this song helps me go through this difficult time so thank you♥♥
Wow thank you 🤍
😂
The song is amazing
Shaindy!!
This is such a great song! 😍
I live in Israel and it is so helpful i just cant stop listening to it!!
Thx so much 😊
Thank you!
Shaindy, this song is absolutely beautiful and takes the cake! It's so heartfelt, emotional and filled with such hope and Chizuk all at the same time! May we each draw strength from this and have NO MORE PAIN!!!
Amen!!
Beautiful!!❤
😢 this just simply beautiful 🤍💙🤍
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep coming back to this song❤❤❤
Shandy love from Antwerp, from your fan Libe Tarschis, wish to sing with you one day!
Thank you!! I love Antwerp!
We didn’t get to sing together, next time!!! We are waiting for you !
fantastic performance and beautiful song
Soul stirring. You’re so deep. Wow what a composition
As always, proud of my classmate. Continue inspiring others, Shaindy.
So. Emotional and beautiful! This will be on repeat in our home!
INCREADIBLE
thank you Shaindy for your hizuk
😭 beautiful shaindy you nailed it❤❤❤
wow, this sing goes straight to the heart!!
wow, love it!!!
BeAuTiFuL!
I love this song it’s my new favorite song ❤🎉
i love this song so much it i was crying al the way through ilooveeeeee it goes straight to the heart
I have chills!!! All of our feelings put into song🥺😭 Amazing Shaindy!
Chilllllsssss😮😮😮❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🙌
Shaindy, you are so talented I am from Israel and this song so good for me in such a dificult time so thank u and of course thank god 💖
B"H!
Soul stirring! Just what we needed now! 🙏⭐️💪
thank you shaindy! you give me inspo every single day. your such an amzing person. ❤
Crying…it’s just so beautiful and captures all the emotions. 😭❤️❤️
STUNNINGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! Absolutely magical!
No words❤
Beautiful!!
Shaindy you’re an inspiration to all of us!!! This song is amazing, went into the depths of my heart!!!💖💖💖
Keep on being an inspiration!!❤️❤️❤️
I’m crying… thank you Shaindy!!! This is what we all needed 💔🫂
Stunning! Just what we needed now
Once again you hit it out the park !!!! Absolutely stunning.
Mind Freaking Blowing!!!!!!!!
This song is just so amazing, heartfelt, stunning!! Thanks for all your hard work!!
Gives us so much strength in these hard times!❤
This is what we needed to hear now!! Thank you!!!
wow so beautiful ❤❤❤❤
So so beautiful and moving ❤
Unbelievably beautiful!!!!! ❤
Absolutely beautiful!
i love u and your songs sooooooooooooooo much
wow
Is there going to be a video for this song?
😭💔😭💔
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I dream of a day when all the world will be safe and everyone will have equal rights and justice will be seen. I dream of the day when the truth will become clear. I dream of the day when all will be free to do what is right, and free of oppression. I dream of a day when all realize that we cannot control other human beings.
Mahatma Gandhi said, "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even imprison my body, but you will not imprison my mind." Martin Luther King Jr said, "Freedom will never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."