Ah Shtarker Bistu

from Kapelya by RAZA רזא

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A tender and old Hasidic nigun in Yiddish and Hebrew. I remember hearing and learning this nigun when I was just four or five years old, and singing it always brings me right back to my childhood apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. There are elements in this nigun that are reminiscent of other important Chabad melodies, which has always been precious to me. I most love the use of the informal “Du” in Yiddish, which invites the singer to converse intimately with the Divine, so close, eye-to-eye.

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אַדִיר הוּא בָּעֶלְיוֹנִים
בָּחוּר הוּא בַּתַּחְתּוֹנִים
בָּעֶלְיוֹנִים, בַּתַּחְתּוֹנִים
כּוּלָּם מוֹדִים וּמַאֲמִינִים
כִּי הַוַיֶ' אֶחָד וּשְׁמוֹ אֶחָד

אַ שְׁטאַרְקעֶר בִּיסְטוּ פוּן אוֹיְבֶּן
אַן אוֹיְסְדעֶרְוֵויילְטעֶר בִּיסְטוּ פוּן אוּנְטֶן
אוּן פוּן אוּנְטֶן אוּן פוּן אוֹיְבֶּן
אַלֶע לוֹיְבְּן, און אַלֶע גְלוֹיְבְּן
אַז דוּ בִּיסְט אֵיינעֶר אוּן מעֶר קֵיינעֶר

Adir hu ba’elyonim
Bachur hu batachtonim
Ba’elyonim, batachtonim
Kulam modim u’maaminim
Ki Hava’ya echad U’shemo Echad

Ah shtarker bistu fun oybn
an oisterveilter bistu fun untn
un fun untn, un fun oybn, aleh loybn un aleh gloybn
Az du bist ayner un mer kayner

You are Strong One from above
You are a Strong One from below
And from below and from above
All praise and all believe
That You are One and there is no other

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from Kapelya, released February 22, 2023
Chana Raskin...vocalsl
Joey Weisenberg…mandolin

Produced by Joey Weisenberg & Chana Raskin
Directed & Arranged by Joey Weisenberg & Chana Raskin
Mixed & Mastered by Don Godwin
Recorded LIVE by Mike Richelle at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, PA
Filmed & Edited by Shmulie Lowenstein of UpperDeck Films
Letter Art by Jessica Tamar Deutsch

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