By him too, the sweetens and the joviality of the Lituanian Jew can be felt.
Beraleh Chagy had a natural sweet voice and was a fascinating “Baal Tefiloh”.
Beraleh Chagy used to weave a lot of rhythmic folkloric quality songs in his prayers and this made him loved by the masses.
The “Beis Hamedrash Hgodoyl” in Johanesburg was known many years after his passing away as the: “Beraleh Chagy Shul”.
His “Krechtz” (groan) was unique and you could feel in it, the true “Yiddishe Krechtz”.
Beraleh also sung many Yiddish and Hebrew songs. He also sang Yemenite songs. He could mimic the way Yemenites are singing.
Chazan Zoltan Berkowitz of Lausanne Switzerland once told me that he was once singing before the students in the Montreux Yeshivah soon after the war the “V’shomru” of Beraleh Chagy”. Suddenly a person of small height came up to him and said: “Very nice” - “may I repeat it?” Berkovitz answered: “By all means, please”. The man started to sing the “V’shomru” and immediately Berkovitz embraced him recognizing from his singing that before him was standing Beraleh Chagy himself !
Another example of Beraleh Chagy’s humor can be appreciated with the following anecdote. A great composer went once to listen to Beraleh Chagy and was so impressed by his prayers that he came up after the service and showed him some of his own scores. Beraleh Chagy nodded with his head and exclaimed: "Beautiful! Beautiful!”. After the composer left, Beraleh Chagy’s own choirmaster who knew that Beraleh Chagy does not read music asked him: “How could you tell that those compositions were beautiful whilst you yourself do not read music?!” Beraleh answered unperturbed, “I meant to say said Chagy, that the handwriting was beautiful” !