If only we could recapture that incredible feeling today

Back in the 1990s, there were some incredible songs about Mashiach, and one of them was “Baruch Haba Melech HaMashiach,” composed by Gershon Fraenkel and sung so memorably by Avraham Fried. I remember when it came out. I was a counselor in camp Gan Israel in Miami, and the air was simply electric every time that song was played. What Avraham Fried captured in that song, the lead track of his Shtar Hatnoim album, is that Am Yisrael is actually welcoming Mashiach. The song was on nonstop that summer. If only we could recapture that incredible feeling today.

—Sruly Meyer, Producer

(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 700)