The "Thirst 6" project, an album recorded according to tradition ahead of the Thirst Festival at the Nation's Buildings, is currently coming to an end.
Now they are thirstily releasing the latest single - a chilling performance by Aviv Alush to the song "I Believe" to the tune of Azriel David Festag, who composed it on the way to Treblinka.
The 'Thirst' project is a musical project that renews ancient Hassidic melodies and makes them part of the Israeli soundtrack of us all.
According to the story, Festag found himself crammed into a freight car with no air and water on the way to Treblinka.
Azriel was a cantor and composer, and now, on the way to death, a new melody pulsed in his heart.
He began to sing, and all the Jews in the caravan joined him.
For a moment Azriel stopped singing, and promised that whoever would be saved and pass the melody to his Rebbe, the Rebbe of Modzic, would win half of his share in the next world.
Two young men decided to jump off the train, one was shot and killed and the other survived and fulfilled his mission.
Festag perished in Treblinka in 1942.
When the melody reached the Rebbe of Modzic, it was sung with devotion and weeping, and the Rebbe said: "With this melody Jews marched to the gas crematoria, and with this melody Jews will march to receive the Messiah of our righteousness."
The Rebbe of Lubavitch sang this melody many times and said that since this song was sung by Jews while they were actually giving their lives for the sanctification of Gd, the melody was sanctified, , In life of course and out of joy and health.
Rabbi Moshe Shilat, who heads the Thirst Festival, said: "Thirst has become a mass and regular event in the Jewish calendar around 19 Kislev and as the Baal HaTanya said, 'This day will be set for a permanent date in Israel.'
But on the other hand, he reinvents himself every time, just like storks - a kind of antique that has been flowing for centuries, but its whole essence is constant renewal and refreshment. "
The traditional thirsty stork fair will be held from Saturday to Wednesday - 16-2 Kislev, 20-24.11.21.
The organizers indicate that they expect tens of thousands of participants.
The record for participants was broken two years ago, before the corona burst into our lives, with over sixty thousand participants from all over the country, 20,000 of whom are women.
Among them are religious, secular, ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic and traditional.