Luthier - Robbie Zev Ludwick

Soon, G-d willing, we’ll be blessed with Moshiach, the full redemption of our people, and the rebuilding of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Music plays a key part in the Holy Temple, and string instruments play a key part in the Temple music. The Levites, the musicians of the Holy Temple, are demanding perfectionists. Their music is designed to ignite the soul and to sanctify Hashem’s name. The reason we don’t lament the Temple more than we do is because we don’t know what we’re missing. The world’s greatest string ensemble is novice and boring compared to the 24-part harmonies of the Levite harps, lyres, and violins. So, when it comes to performing in the Holy Temple, there is no room for compromise. The Levites will need the best precision-hand made string instruments, those of super-Stradivarius quality that can literally laugh and cry with their sweet strains. They’ll need top, daily maintenance of those instruments too. Not only will they need the world’s best luthiers (those who build string instruments), but they’ll need righteous G-d fearing luthiers as well.

Robbie Zev: (Big smile) I definitely want to be the official Luthier in the Beit HaMikdash. (Photo, left – string instruments of the Beit Hamikdash). By the way, my mother, may her holy soul be blessed, is the daughter of a Levite - that probably explains why music and musical instruments are so much a part of me. For that reason, I always strive to better myself, especially in the music area. For that reason, I am now furthering my education under the mentorship of another giant in the violin world and Chesed department, Howard Needham. So, I am now building my own violins for sale.