"It has to be Chaim Banet’s ‘Machnisei Rachamim.’ I released that unforgettable niggun with the words of Selichos on my first album, That Special Melody, in 1993. It was the last song we added, but the niggun made such an impact that I believe it was a vehicle to launching my career. Many others have recorded it since, and when Reb Abish Brodt selected it to sing at the Siyum HaShas years ago, it catapulted the song still further. All these years later, many still sing it to help them enter the realm of these Holy Days.”

—Shlomo Simcha