B'Siyato D'Sh'mayo

from the Beis Medrash of

Ben Zion Solomon

Good Shabbos, Good YomTov!




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Contents



Reb Shlomo Said that ...

"Do you know what King David is all about? Why King David keeps us alive?
Do you know what King David is all about? Shabbos is over, right. I make havdallah, Shabbos is over. Suddenly I realize, I can't forget about Shabbos. I look around gevalt, gevalt, Shabbos is standing on the other corner. And that feast is even deeper than Shabbos. Gevalt, gevalt, is that deep. Because gevalt is that deep. So King David gives us strength to keep Shabbos until next Shabbos.

You see, to keep Shabbos on Monday, on Wednesday? That's what Shabbos is all about."

Reb Shlomo speaking Yud Gimel Elul, 1987 Tismach Jerusalem Home of Yocheved
Transcribed by Lisa Mechanick







Give me Harmony

Announcing the release of a new recording
of old and new songs of

R' Shlomo Carlebach ZTz"L

by Ben Zion Solomon and Sons:
Noach, Yehudah, Meir, Yosef,
Chanan, Nachman and Sruli.

These are almost all songs that do not appear on any commercial recordings to date. Most of them were published in Ben Zion's "Shlomo Shabbos" songbook. They date from 1961 - 1992. The title aptly describes the vocal/harmonic approach to R' Shlomo's music that permeates this recording.

Joining the Solomon family are:

  • Elyon Shames on Drums

  • Duvid Swirsky on Bass,

  • the children of Modi'im on hand clapping;

  • and of course, R' Shlomo ZTz"L in spirit.

Listen to exerpts from this Album

Give Me Harmony




L'CHU N'RAN'NOH

Announcing the release of a new recording
of Leyl Shabbos Nusach of

R' Shlomo Carlebach ZTz"L

by Ben Zion Solomon and Sons:
Yehudah, Meir, Yosef,
Chanan, Nachman and Sruli.

This is a performance of R' Shlomo's nusach for Leyl Shabbos as he used to daven at Moshav Me'or Modi'im and many other places. Many of the pieces were published in Ben Zion's "Shlomo Shabbos" songbook.


SHLOMO SHABBOS

The Shlomo Carlebach Shabbos Songbook

Collected, Transcribed and Edited by

Ben Zion Solomon

For musicians of all levels and non-musicians alike.

This spiral bound volume of 112 pages contains 46 of R' Shlomos best songs that were not published in the previous songbooks. They are all songs of Shabbos and included is the now world famous "Shlomo nusach" for Leyl Shabbos, and many songs that R' Shlomo never recorded.

There are 34 photographs of Shlomo in Jerusalem and on "the Moshav" -
Me'or Modi'im.

Each song is presented with:

  • melody line

  • text underlay in transliterated hebrew

  • chords for harmonic accompaniment of guitar, keyboard, etc.

  • full text in Hebrew

  • a translation of the text into English

  • and stories of the origin of each song.

Also included are:

  • a precious introduction by R' Shlomo ZTz"L

  • introductory material by the Editor, Ben Zion Solomon

  • a table of contents

  • alphabetical index

  • musical index

  • a glossary of non-English terms.

    If you like R' Shlomo's songs, but don't read music, this volume is a worthwhile purchase for the stories and photos alone. Some of the songs in this volume, that R' Shlomo never released commercially, have been recorded by Ben Zion Solomon and sons on the new CD and cassette -"Give Me Harmony"


Here's a sample page ...



BZ with Fiddle

More Information

In Israel:

Ben Zion Solomon
Me'or Modi'im
D.N. HaMercaz 73122
ISRAEL
Tel: 08 926 5073
08 926-4689
FAX: (972-8-926-4688)

email:

[email protected]

In North America:

from Noah Solomon
Tel: 1-212-666-9653 or
1-212-874-7612

Sholom Uv'rochoh



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