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Katonti
by Oren Ashkenazi
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Lyrics to Katonti |
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| Oren writes: The background to the song and dance Katonti Several months ago I inadvertently encountered the song “Katonti” on Youtube and was overwhelmed by the inner fortitude of the song performer- Yonatan Razel. The vigour of his singing arose as if from an internal cry. It connected me to a tragic event which occurred to Yonatan’s family, in the year 2010 during Israel’s Independence Day celebrations which featured fireworks. Yonatan’s four year old daughter, Rivki, wanted to view the fireworks and fell from their verandah, badly injured and was in intensive care connected to a ventilator in an induced coma for a lengthy period. She was a patient for two years with a traumatic brain injury. Yonatan and his family were constantly by her hospital bedside praying to the Lord to save her. According to an interview I read, in his daily prayers he recited chapter 35 of the book of Genesis in which Yaacov prays to the Lord to help him at the time that his brother Esav is in hot pursuit while he was advancing from the Jordan area. In his prayers to the Lord he says he is humbled in comparison to the Lord’s kindness and powers: I am humbled by all the act of charity And from the truth Which you have bestowed on your servant And asks for help: Save me please Save me please Save me please As your benevolence is overwhelming And you have saved my soul from netherworld And the Lord does indeed help Yaacov and saves him as well as… saving Yonatan’s daughter – Rivka’s condition improved and she recovered! | |
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