By Riki Goldstein
May 4, 2021
The songs are soulful, and the pesukim Binyamin chose reflect where his mind was focused, even as his body was wracked by the disease
Binyamin Zwickler a”h, a young man who passed away in 2017 at age 25, had a passion for music that helped him through the challenges of his seven-year-long illness. The Far Rockaway native, diagnosed with cancer in his senior year in high school, composed a collection of deeply personal songs that he mostly kept to himself, but a few months before he passed away, he decided to record them in a home studio and shared them with his family and close friends. And now, those friends have partnered with Madraigos, an organization dedicated to helping young people overcome their challenges, to bring Binyamin’s music to the wider world.