Yosef Karduner is an Israeli Hasidic singer, songwriter, and composer. His biggest hit, Shir LaMaalot, appeared on his debut album, Road Marks (2000).
Karduner performing at a kumzits (Jewish musical gathering) in Uman, Ukraine, 2013
Psalm 121 is the 121st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”. In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 120. In Latin, it is known as Levavi oculos meos in montes.
Looking to the mountains is the opening thought of Psalm 121
The headstone of the English botanist, Lady Joan Margaret Legge in the Valley of Flowers in the Himalaya, quoting the first verse of Psalm 121