More recent songs have had messages of surrender, of picking up pieces after a fall
When composer and songwriter CHAYALA NEUHAUS made the first Miracles album in 2015, the soloist, Dovid Pearlman, was just 14. His return to singing on MIRACLES 4 brings a beautiful, heartfelt delivery to the newest volume of Chayala’s English songs, this time produced by musician/arranger Tzvi Blumenfeld, director of Freilach Band.
There are eleven original songs in Chayala’s signature flowing lyrical style, although they touch on new themes in Jewish life.
“I always want to write songs around the central core of tefillah and emunah, but as life goes on, everything evolves, and the messaging I need for myself changes and shifts. It was actually a friend who pointed out that the idealistic songs I wrote in my teens and twenties gave way to songs with more layers of life woven into them,” says Chayala.
More recent songs have had messages of surrender, of picking up pieces after a fall, and how the greatest knowledge you ever have is that you don’t know much. For example, watching her toddler sing the Uncle Moishy classic “Hashem is Here, Hashem is There,” it dawned on Chayala that we all need to reclaim this message later on in life. In “With Me,” she writes “I’ve been up / and I’ve been down / And I’ve been all around / And walked all the miles / from home / And I so want to believe / That You’re here for me / And I’m not alone.” Her song concludes with the realization that “Hashem is Everywhere” really begins when we place Him at the center of our lives.
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