Hassidic singer Avraham Fried and secular singer Aviv Geffen teamed up for an extraordinary collaboration and this month launched “Batzrot”, an exciting duet with a message of brotherhood and unity. .
Geffen was interviewed today (Wednesday) on the “Shabbat Square” website and said that he and Fried “correspond a few months into the night”, adding: “We became true friends. He spoke with a lot of honesty and a lot of pain and I won a friend before a huge artist and singer.”
Geffen said that “there is a lot of courage in this duet for him. At first I did not understand it, but after that I realized that the fact that he is willing to record my song and also be interviewed with his audience, that is what distinguishes in my eyes between entertainer and artist, and Abraham Fried is a really brave artist.”
The singer later referred to the bar mitzvah ceremony that his eldest son Dylan celebrated at the synagogue last July, saying that “first of all I am Jewish and it was important for me to celebrate my son Dylan the bar mitzvah. Eviatar Banai came and was his teacher and also raised him to the Torah. Judaism is an important current “And it was important for me to celebrate a real bar mitzvah for him. On holidays I come to Jerusalem to Eviatar to celebrate with him and I am mostly respectful, and that is how it should be in my eyes.”
“I made a lot of friends in Bnei Brak in Jerusalem, I sinned in a lot of ignorance at first, I painted the whole religion in a uniform color, a color of ignorance. Today I am much smarter, more inclusive and mature. I am Jewish and it is time to unite forces,” Geffen said.
Asked if the softening and reconciliation were not just meant to focus more on the mainstream and perhaps gain a tour with Avraham Fried, Geffen replied: “I was invited to perform with Fried even before this affair in Masada. “I would be very happy for a column of unity with Avraham Fried all over the world because I want it, but for a moment it did not cross my mind.”
Geffen supports going for further elections and notes that “there are things in which Benjamin Netanyahu is a phenomenon and it is impossible to take it from him, but I think the time has come and we all deserve new and better leadership on all sides, both right and left. I initially supported unity, but they did not “It harmed society in Israel. There is no need to mention that when the numbers went up in Bnei Brak, no one helped them. And not only that – they were blamed and said they deserved it. I said I was not willing to stand aside and I stood up to help them.”