To Life (album)

The Rabbis' Sons: To Life
Studio album by The Rabbis' Sons
Released	August 1968
Genre	Jewish, Chassidic
Length	38:27
Label	Emes Record Co. ES-102 (stereo)
Producer	Itzy Weinberger, Baruch Chait
The Rabbis' Sons chronology
Hal'lu (1967) To Life (1968) Shalom (1970)

Format	LP
Main musical personnel	Sharfman, Weinberger, Zheutlin, Chait, David Nulman
Other musical personnel	Joshua Goldberg (later of Or Chodosh), Mickey Lane, Stanley Miller, Yehuda Isaacs, Steven Gasner, Herbert Goldenberg

The second Rabbis’ Sons album contained one of the only two songs they ever released with Yiddish lyrics (Mazel Tov). Tov Lehodos was one of the group’s most popular songs. The liner notes to the album indicate that Baruch Chait had left the group to concentrate on his Talmudic studies at this point. However, he contributed three new songs, played guitar and co-arranged the music.

Track list

Side one
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Notes	Length
1.	"Lecho Hashem" (לך ה' הגדולה)	הוצאת ספר תורה	Chait	also appears on Greatest Hits as track 1	3:04
2.	"V'lyrushalayem" (ולירושלים)	שמונה עשרה	David Nulman	vocal: Weinberger	3:05
3.	"Me Yidmeh Loch" (מי ידמה לך)	נשמת	Rafi Wachsman	vocal Sharfman	3:56
4.	"Anim Zmiros" (אנעים זמירות)		Zheutlin		4:35
5.	"Rabi Akiva" (רבי עקיבא)	ירושלמי נדרים ט:ד:	Chait	vocal Sharfman; also appears on Greatest Hits as track 6	4:20

Side two
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Notes	Length
1.	"Dirshu" (דרשו)	Psalms 34:9	Zheutlin		2:30
2.	"Tov Lehodos" (טוב להודות)	Psalms 92:2,3 4:21	Itzy Katz	vocal: Zheutlin; also appears on Greatest Hits as track 8	4:21
3.	"Oz Yoshir" (אז ישיר)	Exodus 15	Zheutlin		3:30
4.	"Anah Bekoach" (אנא בכח)	קבלת שבת	Zheutlin	vocal: Weinberger	3:11
5.	"Me Chomocha" (מי כמוך)	שמונה עשרה	Chait		2:26
6.	"Mazel Tov (Yiddish)" (מזל טוב)		Traditional Yiddish Folk Song	vocal: Weinberger	3:29

References

• To Life at FAU Jewish Sound Archives
• To Life at DJSA (Free registration)