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The Neilah prayer service was winding down and, with it, the Yom Kippur holiday. Worshippers repeatedly glanced at their watches to gauge how soon they could race home to break the 25-hour fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the man leading the service, Shlomo Carlebach, \u201cwas in a trance\u201d of sorts, Ari Goldman remembered, and ignited attendees in spirited singing that kept the solemn day going as people chanted and hugged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the kind of experience I never had before. It took you out of your body and out of your needs. It\u2019s something I remember and romanticize,\u201d said Goldman, a retired Columbia University professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setting was Carlebach\u2019s synagogue on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side on September 15, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five weeks later, on October 20, Carlebach died of a heart attack at the age of 69.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shlomo Carlebach, December, 1975. Photo<\/a> by IPPA staff, from the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Carlebach was dynamic and charismatic, a man who melded music and storytelling, becoming a sort of Jewish pied-piper for the modern age. His goal was to reach Jews across the globe, especially those young and unaffiliated, and connect with their souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known as The Singing Rabbi, he crafted simple tunes for equally basic, and exceedingly brief, lyrics often taken from Jewish texts. He would accompany them by strumming a  classical guitar. His songs not only caught on and spread, but did so across multiple denominations of Judaism, quickly becoming standard fare at weddings and bnei mitzvah celebrations. Thirty-one years after Carlebach\u2019s passing, they remain so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of Od Yishama B\u2019arei Yehuda<\/em> (\u201cIt Will be Heard Again in the Cities of Judea\u201d), the quick-paced, joyously rising song emitted by a clapping circle of loved ones dancing the groom toward the bride to begin a wedding ceremony. Am Yisrael Chai<\/em> (\u201cThe Jewish People Live\u201d). Eilekha Hashem Ekra<\/em> (\u201cI\u2019ll Call Upon You, God\u201d). Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh<\/em> (\u201cI\u2019ll Build a Tabernacle in My Heart\u201d) Hashmi\u2019eini Et Koleikh<\/em> (\u201cLet Me Hear Your Voice\u201d). All are songs Carlebach composed or popularized.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shlomo<\/em> Carlebach Live<\/em>, CBS, 1974. You can listen to this commercial recording on the National Library of Israel website, here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

When Israeli musician Lenny Solomon entertains at weddings and bnei mitzvah parties, \u201cthe music we\u2019re playing is naturally Carlebach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re songs you have to sing. The musical legacy is un-freaking-believable,\u201d said Solomon, who as a boy in Queens, New York, learned to play Jewish songs on accordion without knowing they were Carlebach\u2019s creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe’s kind of the soundtrack,\u201d said Shaul Magid, a Harvard professor of modern Jewish studies. \u201cCertainly, in post-war Jewish America, he\u2019s one of the two or three most important personalities in terms of influence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Goldman, Carlebach\u2019s songs were \u201cvery formative music\u201d that he\u2019d dance to in his family\u2019s living room in New York. Goldman attended Carlebach\u2019s synagogue as a teenager and became \u201calmost like a roadie,\u201d hauling Carlebach\u2019s guitar into and out of taxis they\u2019d take to concerts. \u201cI could not be in his circle enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlebach continues to influence Jewish life and prayers. In scores of synagogues worldwide, Friday night services \u2014 some once a month, some weekly \u2014 are held in what\u2019s dubbed Carlebach-version, with the prayers sung soulfully rather than mumbled by rote.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shlomo Carlebach performs for wounded IDF veterans, May, 1973. Photo<\/a> by IPPA staff, from the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cHe liberated the liturgy from the standard nusach<\/em>,\u201d Magid, using the Hebrew word for version, said of Carlebach-influenced prayers and life-circle songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlebach was born just over a century ago in Berlin and as a boy emigrated with his parents to New York. He came from a family of rabbis and became one himself, taking over the Manhattan synagogue after his father\u2019s death and establishing his own in San Francisco in the mid-1960s that he named the House of Love and Prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had a talent for music, wrote songs and performed in Manhattan nightclubs. He soon combined his passions, melding Hasidic-influenced spirituality into music to connect with Jewish concertgoers. He was lively and personable, someone who cheerfully hugged both men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the years after Carlebach passed away, several women charged that he had sexually harassed and abused them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis life and legacy are so complicated because of all the things that came out after his death and sullied his legacy for some in the generation who didn\u2019t know him,\u201d said Magid, who from 1986 to 1989 lived in the Israeli community Carlebach founded, Moshav Mevo Modiim, and has written several journal articles about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shlomo Carlebach performs for an audience, December, 1975. Photo<\/a> by IPPA staff, from the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That side of the man will be one of the themes of a documentary about his life due out in early 2026 by Manhattan filmmaker Simon Mendes, who said he wanted \u201cto tell the full story of Shlomo Carlebach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s either been hagiography or: \u2018He should be cancelled. Oh, he\u2019s a sexual predator,\u2019\u201d Mendes, who grew up a few blocks from the Carlebach synagogue and was a child when Carlebach died, said of previous films. \u201cI think it\u2019s important to be honest and to hold both realities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shlomo Katz is another person too young to appreciate Carlebach at the latter\u2019s peak. He did attend one performance when Carlebach came to Katz\u2019s native Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katz, a musician and the rabbi of a congregation in the Israeli town of Efrat, has spent decades collecting videos and audios of Carlebach\u2019s concerts. He also has published books of divrei Torah<\/em> (Torah commentaries) spoken by Carlebach between songs of his shows and in lectures and interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt that every word he was singing was connecting me to my soul, to God and the Torah,\u201d Katz said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shlomo Carlebach performs for wounded IDF veterans, May, 1973. Photo<\/a> by IPPA staff, from the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Another musician, Lazer Lloyd, even moved to Israel with Carlebach\u2019s assistance soon after they met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That occurred at the Millinery Center Synagogue in midtown Manhattan, days before Carlebach was due to perform there. Within minutes, Carlebach invited Lloyd to appear with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe asked me what kind of music I played. I said, \u2018The blues.\u2019 He said, \u2018I play the Jewish blues. You play your blues, and I\u2019ll play mine,\u2019\u201d Lloyd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was mesmerized from that first concert. I didn\u2019t know I\u2019d meet this influential Jewish guru. He blew me away. I realized Jewish music was very deep. His music was very deep and moving. People were dancing and crying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shlomo Carlebach at the Village Gate<\/a><\/em>, CBS, 1975. From the National Library of Israel collections<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Lloyd had just returned from visiting his sister in Israel. At lunch the day after the concert, he told Carlebach he was considering another trip to Israel. Their conversation spurred Lloyd to decide to study religious texts, so Carlebach arranged for the head of a Jerusalem yeshiva to host Lloyd. In August 1994, Lloyd arrived to begin his studies. Carlebach died that October before they could meet again. Lloyd still lives in Israel, in Beit Shemesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Lloyd performed at Carlebach\u2019s moshav, much of which burned down in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlebach had told Lloyd: \u201cIt\u2019s one of my favorite places in the world to play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer-editor Hillel Kuttler may be reached at <\/em>hk@HillelTheScribeCommunications.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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