Yemenite Shalom Aleichem

This casual home video presents Ronen Garama singing a Mizrahi influenced version of Cantor Israel Goldfarb’s popular melody for Shalom Aleichem. Garama, the grandson of Yemenite immigrants to Israel and the owner of a gardening company that tends graves, sings this song for composer Yehuda Yannay at his office in the Holon Municipal Cemetery. Whereas most traditions address the first stanza to the « malachei hashareit » (the ministering angels) and the rest to the « malachei hashalom » (the angels of peace), this version follows the tradition of singing « malachei hashalom » for the entire song.