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What Is Your Favorite Yerushalayim Niggun?     

JL;DR SUMMARY Exploring the deep connection between music and Jewish longing, particularly regarding Yerushalayim, this article showcases various Jewish artists sharing their favorite niggunim about Jerusalem. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish MusicYerushalayimRedemptionShlomo CarlebachAbie RotenbergBeis HamikdashThree WeeksLongingNiggunimMordechai Ben David

Places mentioned

Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, Israel
"As Klal Yisrael lives through this time of intense mourning for the Beis Hamikdash while yearning for the return to the Yerushalayim of Geulah, we turn off the music and listen, instead, to the music playing inside our hearts."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"The song that first awakened a feeling of longing for Yerushalayim within me is Mordechai Ben Davids vintage Racheim Bechasdecha. I remember listening to it in our dining room in Argentina, when I was a kid of around nine years old."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"I walked into shul in Toronto in the middle of that day, to find one Yid standing at the bimah with tears rolling down his cheeks."

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