MBD’s WE ARE ONE album got the freilach niggun it needed, a hit song born of a mitzvah
Despite the late hour, the description of the child’s intense disappointment had MBD ready to go along and bring her some of what she had missed. He looked around and saw that Yitzy Bald was still holding his guitar. “Yitz, you’ll come along?”
The small group of singers arrived at the Manhattan hospital at 1 a.m. Wearing masks and gowns to protect the sick girl against infection, they brought the HASC concert into her hospital room.
“It was a live concert, HASC for an audience of one,” remembers Yitzy. “It was an incredible ‘Mi ke’amcha Yisrael’ moment. No one thought then that the child was going to make it through her illness, but I believe that she eventually did recover.”
It wasn’t the only time Yitzy and Mordechai performed together for a mitzvah. Yitzy recalls walking through the hallway of a house in Brooklyn with his keyboard to accompany MBD on a visit to a sick little boy. On the walls were photos of a very cute, chassidish boy with shining, innocent eyes, round cheeks, and curly peyos. When they came into the dining room, the child awaited them on a hospital bed, thin, and sick, with no peyos remaining.
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