“Shema Koleinu” Yuval Sela prayer for the High Holidays

17 Aug, 2010 by yossi

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Yuval Sela is a musician at heart and has been a baal tshuva for about the last 10 years. In recent years he makes a living teaching music, harmony, theory and guitar. Yuval has been a composer for as long as he remembers and writes all the time. In time, he composed two songs from the album of Ariel brothers (sons of Meir Ariel) and wrote a song the singer’s second album Moshe Levy.

Yuval is currently finishing work on his debut album, produced independently, when the works were made in collaboration with musician Ariel Abizub, is also responsible for musical arrangements and production. The songs talk about unity, reconciliation, and overall longing for the Divine Presence Holy praised blessed God.

“I hope and believe that with the name of my poems cross borders and be a bridge between secular and religious. I could see it also shows when a crowd of religious and secular, and I was very pleased” – Festschrift.

‘Shema Koleinu‘ – is a harbinger of whats to come on the album. The words are from the slichos of the Yom Kippur prayers. A few years ago Yuval had the opportunity to pray on Yom Kippur with Rabbi Tzion zt”l, he was zoche to be mekarev through seeing some of the rebbe’s work and devotion of his soul. Motzei Yom Kippur he went home, pulled out a guitar, and this is the song that was created.

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