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.Â