REVIEW OF:

“All Flesh is as Grass”

By Rosalind Hershkovitz

What a blessing it is to review Rosalind Hershkovitz”s “All Flesh is as Grass” album. Rosalind’s love and zeal for G-d is evident, as reflected in her musical offerings on this anointed CD. Rosalind’s creative song writing style combined with her deep love and admiration of the L-rd makes “All Flesh is as Grass” an anointed CD that is sure to bring you to your knees in worship and gratitude to the King of the Universe.   

The first song that I have chosen for you to listen to is entitled, “A Prayer of Moses” Based on Psalm 90, this song illustrates the eternity of G-d and the frailty of man. I especially enjoyed the piano accompaniment on “A Prayer of Moses”.

“Song of Boaz” is a heart-felt song of devotion, based on the book of Ruth. Because of Ruth’s sincere dedication to the G-d of Israel and His people great blessings and favor were bestowed to Ruth.

My third song choice is “All Flesh is as Grass”, based on verses from Isaiah 40 & 28, and 1 Peter 1 & 2. This song reminds us that even though all flesh is as grass, which withers away, the Word of the L-rd stands forever.

In summation, I appreciate and admire Rosalind’s unique musical style and believe that “All Flesh is as Grass” would be a welcomed addition to your Messianic music collection.

Autobiography By
Rosalind Hershkovitz

I was born in Sydney to a mother of strong faith, though for many years my father was agnostic.  Our family is not Jewish but we lived in a part of Sydney with very large Jewish population and Jewish friends were a part of my childhood and youth.  My mother always taught me to respect the Jewish people as "Our Lord was a Jew".  From early childhood I learned stories from Old and New Testaments and our school, a Church of England school, was strong in Bible teaching .  Consequently I grew up with a love for and some knowledge of the scriptures.  I gave my life to Jesus on several occasions but at University was seduced by peer group pressure and turned my back on the Lord, never ceasing to believe in Him, but doing my "own thing". 

Seven years later I had peritonitis of the intestines in a hospital in Spain, and began to turn back to the Lord, giving my life to Him again a few months later. My mother had become a spirit filled believer some years ago and through her and other witness I knew this was what I wanted, so I too received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and began to feed on the Word of God. My early love was revived and I have since read the Bible from beginning to end 7 times.

At this time after seeking the Lord earnestly for my direction, I was called to Brisbane to a large charismatic church there and after playing Esther in a musical at the church, and being suddenly again directionless, I heard music tapes from The Liberated Wailing Wall and received an unmistakable certainty of my call to Israel, combined with a deepening of my relationship with God.  All my life I had had a sense that I was supposed to be joined to some other culture and language and had actually "tried it out" in Spain!  But now I understood that it was Israel and Hebrew that was in my heart, but until I was one with God's will I couldn't get it quite right!

I studied a bit of Hebrew, bought a Hebrew/English Tenach, and was given a Brit Ha Hadashah at the same time.  In the Lord's timing  (not straight away!)  I came to Israel, first as part of the Christian Embassy Worship Team at Succot in 1991 and later in 1993 on a one way ticket.  I lived as a Metapelet with 2 elderly sisters where I became fluent in Hebrew, and 6 months after my arrival met my husband to be Avraham Hershkovitz, a sabra, at a home group attached to the Baptist House Jerusalem, and we were married shortly after.  

The Lord had given me several assurances from His word and also in prophecy that I would marry an Israeli believer and become part of the people.  Isaiah 14:1 is one such word, also the Book of Ruth.    This dream from the Lord had been with me for several years and He brought it to pass very suddenly and beautifully.  We speak Hebrew at home which has really helped me relate to Avi's family and other Israelis, and to write songs in Hebrew and relate generally in this culture.   We have now been married 11 years and during our marriage put on 2 musicals, a revival of Esther, which I had performed in Brisbane! And my own composition, "Jeremiah" for which Avi chose the Scriptures for the text. I also composed music for another 3 musicals for someone else, "Ruth", "Song of Songs" and "Ecclesiastes" and am now working on "Job" for the same person.

At the end of 2002 I began recording "All Flesh is as Grass" and finished in March 2003. A year later we printed another set.

Music Bio

I was trained in piano and theory and a few years of violin/viola in early and teen years both in and outside school.  I had since the age of 14 a great desire to be an opera singer, as it seemed to combine my love of music and drama.  I studied voice from the age of 18 and did Music as a subject at Sydney University, and later Sydney Teachers' College in a grad dip. Ed year.  For me, not going to the Conservatorium full time was a bad career choice for being a singer as many distractions drew me from whole-hearted pursuit of this at the time.  I taught High School Music and developed a choir in one school.  Two highpoints of my fairly short career as a high school Music Teacher were successfully preparing 2 young singers for acceptance to the Conservatorium (in Brisbane) .

At the time of my return to faith, I began to get interested in Praise and Worship and after hearing the Jews For Jesus Music, also Lamb, I began to learn the guitar and sing many of these songs which really appealed to me strongly. I also did a lot of dance at this time and participated for 7 years both as a singer and a dancer at the conference  "Celebration Shalom" at Gold Coast, Queensland.

As mentioned I was Esther in a church musical "Esther" and later played Rebecca and Esther in a long teaching musical called "Why did God Choose the Jews?" by then "Vineyard" representative in Brisbane, George Spall. I also was involved in choreography and dance in this. I did some further vocal training at this time.

In coming to Israel, after my marriage, my husband Avi really encouraged both my piano and singing and I became pianist and soloist at a small fellowship' St Pauls Fellowship.  We decided to revive" Esther" at this time together with a friend from the original production, Peter Day.  As there were no songs for Mordechai or Haman, I tried my hand and discovered a gift of composition.  After this came "Ruth" at a friend's request, "Jeremiah" in Hebrew, my husband's idea (a short opera), then 3 musicals commissioned by a friend, "Song of Songs, and "Ecclesiastes" (all straight from the scriptures) and now I'm working on "Job".   I have also written music to about 20 poems by another friend on the subject of Grief and Hope.

 Many Blessings,

Rosalind Hershkovitz