LIFESTYLE Issue 830 · September 29, 2020

Always a New Day

He’s been singing for forty years,but it’s always a new day for Avraham Fried

Always a New Day
Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Meir Haltovsky

I can only share my own pshat, based not on any particular conversation with him but on having interviewed him several times. Also, there is a dedicated Avraham Fried channel on Kol Chai Music and it plays on my computer. A lot.

Here’s what I think.

Take me on Your wing, teach me how to sing
The one song the world wants to hear,
Oh, Father dear.
Don’t hide from me,
It seems You’re hiding more and more each day, why, I pray,
I keep looking, You keep hiding,

Oh, I feel so alone, I’m calling to You, Father, please come home.

Don’t Hide From Me

Every Jew wants Mashiach, but Avraham Fried wants Mashiach so very much that it comes up in almost any discussion, and you get the sense around him that he’s really not okay as long as we’re in galus.

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