Abie Rotenberg: The Legend of Jewish Music

Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

Living Lchaim

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.

Abie Rotenberg is a prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been producing music since the mid-1970s with a style which has been described as "soft and sweet" with a strong folk influence.

Rotenberg grew up in Queens, New York, surrounded by other up and coming religious Jewish musicians, including Eli Teitelbaum, who directed the first Pirchei boys choir, as well as Rabbi Baruch Chait and Label Sharfman who attended yeshiva with him. Rotenberg studied piano and taught himself guitar at a young age.

Rotenberg has also been a main fixture of the annual HASC: A Time for Music concerts. He has produced a children's audio series called the "Marvelous Midos Machine" comprising four volumes, with all original material.

He has produced: D'veykus, Aish, Journeys and A LOT more.

Most consider him to be the most influential jewish composer in our time.

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0:00.0	Which song of yours when you heard it made you cry? And I told him the answer was when I saw
0:05.9	When those three three boys unfortunately were kidnapped and we were still hoping that it would be
0:15.4	There would be a positive resolution. And there were thousands of people at the hotel
0:17.8	singing, Achainu, when I first heard that,
0:20.6	it made me cry because I felt that people connected to my song together with the
0:24.7	sentiment of those words and that they felt that those that that music was
0:29.7	something that would bring that feelus closer to the Kiseakovitz. So it was a very powerful moment for me.
0:37.6	Welcome back to Inspiration for the nation. I'm Yaku Wanger and I'm so excited
0:42.1	the happiest time of year to introduce the one the only
0:45.1	the legendary A.B. Rottenburg. I had this conversation quite a few months ago for
0:49.8	logistical reasons I'm putting it out now, but what better time than the happiest time of year to talk to someone who has evoked so much emotion in all of us, whether it's true happiness or real true sorrow, whatever it is is the songs that we've grown up on that I'm still
1:06.3	growing up on you'll hear why you say that in this week's episode with the one the
1:11.4	legendary AB Romburg I am so thankful to him and he was so forthcoming and so honest and raw in this interview that's why I'm so
1:19.2	Special Lee excited that doesn't grammatically make sense, but I'm still rolling with that I'm
1:24.0	excited for this conversation here we go my conversation with AB
1:39.0	we can all use some inspiration to help us overcome the obstacles we encounter in our lives. Get ready for thrilling conversations about struggle and triumph with those in pursuit of making a positive impact in this world.
1:48.4	I'm Yaku Langer and you're listening to Inspiration for the nation.
1:53.0	I'm here with A.B. Rotenberg.
1:58.0	He's in America, which you actually grew up.
2:04.8	I like to be in America.
2:07.4	You grew up in Queens, right?
2:08.6	I was born in New York in Queens, and I moved to Toronto in 1984 been there since.
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