''Oneg Shabbat': Hasidic singer Simcha Friedman launches a song with a 'once-upon-a-time' feel'

Shtetl
June 4, 2026   
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After a series of singles in a variety of colors and styles: The Hasidic singer Simcha Friedman Launching the first song from his second album, which is set to be released soon.

""Oneg Shabbat" — a Hasidic waltz, gentle and joyful, with a Jewish flavor of yesteryear.

The song was composed by Chaim Altman, and is responsible for the musical arrangement and production. David Toeb.

""How fun it is that I won this song," says Simcha. "How much I love Shabbat. Not just the food and the feasts, but this day and night when the entire outside world stops. You can sit with your child, learn something, sing a melody, talk face to face with your family, breathe, without noise, without phones, without distractions. What a gift Shabbat is! Ahhhhhh, oh Shabbat!"...