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Even those who can’t read the words are moved by the Selichos

Music is to be used as an inspiration for avodas Hashem

A nostalgia for thousands of simple shtetlach of old

Yigal Calek’s classic ‘Chamol al Maasecha’

Chaim Banet’s ‘Machnisei Rachamim.’

Four decades later, those classics have stuck Rabbi Label Sharfman is the founder and dean of Bnot Torah Institute, better known as “Sharfman’s” in Jerusalem, and Abie Rotenberg is — well, he’s Abie Rotenberg. But back in the 1970s, they were chavrusas in the beis medrash of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in Forest Hills. Label Sharfman