"Inspired by Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, the opening track of the miracle-themed album contains the music and the message that says it all"
“I believe in miracles, I know there is a G-d…” Maybe we all knew it before, but it took the towering faith of Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin and this upbeat tune with Yaakov Shwekey’s inimitable vocals to get us to admit it and readily sing it aloud. Inspired by Reb Sholom Mordechai, the opening track of the miracle-themed album contains the music and the message that says it all.
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin
Sitting in “a place called prison,” I opened my Chovos Halevavos and learned and relearned the Shaar Habitachon every single day. The objective was to teach myself to think how the Shaar Habitachon wants a Yid to think. And one principle that we learn there is that when a Yid is in a tzarah, he’s obligated to have bitachon that Hashem will save him. Then he has to act within teva — nature — and do his hishtadlus. But he knows that the Eibeshter can get him out of his suffering in ways higher than teva.
Yaakov Shwekey was one of the Yidden who used to come and visit me. On one visit, I was speaking to him about how unlimited the Eibeshter’s powers are, and how a Yid has to daven for all his needs and believe that the Eibeshter will help him far beyond the scope of teva. That’s what it means to be a Yid.
Yaakov was inspired. He wanted to produce a song about this concept, and the resulting song was “Ma’amin Benissim.”
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