Looking back, Yitzchak Fuchs, singer and songwriter famous for his “LaHashem Haaretz” and countless other songs, finds it hard to single out one memorable performance among the thousands of simchahs and kumzitzes he’s played.

But there was one sheva brachos in London which seemed to rise above the course of nature. Yitzchak had injured his hand in a fall while working in his garden in Tzfas. It wasn’t broken, but highly painful, and he had no idea how he would play at the simchah in London, where he was to enter in the middle as a surprise for chassan and kallah. “I felt like I was being thrown into the lions’ den as I walked in there. But the atmosphere in that room was crackling with surprise and electricity. I started to play and sing “Yiram hayam umelo’oh,” and the crowd sang and clapped along. I looked down at my hand and saw it was playing, hard, but somehow it didn’t hurt anymore. I thanked and praised Hashem in a haze of joy. Looking back, that whole evening was both my most anxiety-ridden and most joyful performance ever.”

 (Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 742)