Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Today, the eve of Passover, we would like to share with you a very special tune for “How is this night different from all other nights?” We learned this tune from my wife’s mother, Yocheved Masovetsky Gindsberg (she called it “an old Israeli tune”). Her father was Cantor Leon H. Masovetsky, born in Petah Tikva in 1903, and was the chazan in Winthrop MA for over 40 years. He came on Aliya to Jerusalem in 1970 and was the chazan in Heichal Shlomo for a few years.
May their memory be for a blessing.

We wish you and your loved ones a Happy Passover, with hope for better days,

Ryna and Mordechai Kedar

 

6 COMMENTS

  1. I just saw this beautiful video tonight, Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1 year later. I was a student of Reverend Masovetsky in Winthrop and loved this tune for Ma Nishtana. I have never heard anyone else sing it. I still sing it and love it along with other tunes you grandfather taught us that no one else knows.

    Ryna, I believe I remember you from those days. I remember your lovely mom well. You have inherited the beautiful family voice.

    Chag Sameach,

    Tessa Gorenstein Lebinger
    Baltimore, MD

  2. I had a very soft spot in my heart for your dad..you have inherited his gift.
    Thank you for sharing this with us.

    Susan Goldberg King

  3. Reverend masovetsky…. Had the most beautiful voice I ever heard in my life. His voice is forever planted in my mind and in my heart I can still visualize him singing at Temple Tifereth Israel which my family was helping to build that Temple way back in the 1940’s..in Vinthrop…haha with an accent …

  4. Beautiful harmony.. I remember H. Leon Masovetsky.. A wonderful cantor.
    He wows the principal of the Tifereth Israel Hebrew school from where I
    was asked to finish my religious studies elsewhere.

    Chag Pesach Sameach.

    Ed Polansky

  5. Beautiful harmony.. I remember H. Leon Masovetsky.. A wonderful cantor.
    He was the principal of the Tifereth Israel Hebrew school from where I
    was asked to finish my religious studies elsewhere.

    Chag Pesach Sameach.

    Ed Polansky

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