The Waldman Brothers: Rav Yitzchak Ginsburgh’s Shalom Aleichem

This pleasant version of Shalom Aleichem is performed by the Waldman Brothers, a Jerusalem-based band comprised of brothers, Elazar and Moshe Waldman. In the title track of their album featuring original and classic Shabbat songs, the brothers perform a musical rendition of Rav Yitzchak Ginsburg‘s original melody. Although Ginsburg, an American-born Israeli rabbi affiliated with the Chabad movement, is most commonly known for his contribution to Jewish scholarship and his extreme political positions, he is also a musician and composer, with hundreds of original Jewish melodies performed by some of Israel’s most celebrated musicians.