This week we observe Yom HaShoah and commemorate the unimaginable amount of lives lost during the Holocaust. The Hannah Senesh poem “Eili, Eili” is a powerful reminder that life goes on, and this timeless setting of these words by David Zehavi (covered here by Rabbi Noah Diamondstein) has become such a staple in Jewish music for the way it honors the sadness while being eternally hopeful.  

Noah Diamondstein‘s stirring cover of “Eili, Eili” reminds us why this is such a powerful song of both remembrance and hope.

This year, as we commemorate Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day under unusual circumstances, we feel the words of Hannah Senesh’s prayer even more deeply.