‘To Believe Without Knowing How to Walk’: Chaim Sover Touches a Pain We All Know

After his debut single, "Don't Panic," singer and songwriter Chaim Sover continues to establish his personal and spiritual musical direction, and today he is releasing the new song "100 Falls." Once again, it is a piece he wrote and composed himself, with musical arrangement and production by Eli Klein and Itzy Beri. Listen to Chaim Sover's new song, "100 Falls."

If in the first song Sover spoke about the serenity of belief and the ability to stop for a moment amid the chaos, this time he goes deeper into places of pain, struggle and falls, but does so מתוך faith, hope and a desire to rise again. "From the falls I will make prayers," the new song brings especially raw and honest lyrics, moving between moments of weakness and a deep connection to faith. "From the falls I will make prayers, to understand that above, they embrace the tears," Sover sings in one of the song's most striking lines, which succeeds in conveying a sense of inner searching alongside comfort. In lines such as "To believe without knowing how to walk" and "If there are no clouds here, then how is a flood of rain falling on me," Sover manages to touch feelings of confusion, fear and struggle, without losing the light and faith that accompany him throughout.

Continuing his personal and spiritual line, Sover, 25, from Jerusalem, has in recent years combined Torah study with musical work. After his debut single, in which he spoke about inner searching and the dream of standing on the big stages, it appears that in "100 Falls" he remains faithful to that same personal, exposed and moving path. "A melody for me is a way of life," Sover said when the song was released. "There are emotions and insights that can only really be understood when they become a melody."

With a contemporary production and lyrics that come from a very personal place, "100 Falls" continues to position Chaim Sover as one of the intriguing new voices in Jewish-Israeli music.