I believe i first saw Moshe Yess do his masterpiece, My Zaidy, in the Wilshire Ebel Theater in Beverly Hills, CA at Chabad Lubavitch & Rabbi Estulin fundraiser for Russian Jewry in 1990. The next time was at Long Beach Chabad in CA in 1991. Then in the late 1990s while living in Jacksonville, FL Moshe performed for Chabad Jacksonville and we spent hours together & played music together. We became good friends & i later visited with him and accompanied him on my pocket trumpet in Crown Heights. Of late, playing nearly weekly shows with the Holocaust Survivors Band, with whom i sing My Zaidy, the memory of Moshe (as well as the memory of the "Zaidy of Jewish music", Reb Shlomo Carlebach, who i had the privilege of knowing and accompanying when he was in southern CA 1990-1994) is constantly in my head. Here only days after Pesach when the entire Jewish people recognize that freedom is our greatest gift & spend a week thanking Hashem, i was driving along when i felt the need to sing.

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