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5 Comments:
At 11:21 AM,
Izbitza said…
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At 12:09 PM,
The Town Crier said…
I hope you are being sarcastic!
At 2:52 PM,
MoChassid said…
TTC: I am always sarcastic.
The irony of all this is that according to Shlomo Katz, Reb Shlomo played the neshama niggun once and somebody recorded it. Now, it's the biggest song around and every shiny shoe clown with an Armani Suit is recording it. And some are making up prust dances to go with it!
There is turbulence on Har Hamenuchot.
At 6:06 PM,
OOS said…
I am so sick of people trotting out the same tired old argument about Rav Shlomo touching women. No less than the Lubavitcher Rebbe will agree with you that Rav Shlomo's actions were wrong. However, I fail to see how that leads to the conclusion that he would be ok with the destruction of his song with trashy dance beats and even trashier dance moves.
Some of what Rav Shlomo did was certainly not halachically permissible. He had other flaws as well. But does that mean that we should conclude that there was nothing special about his music? Were the things that he accomplished in life not incredible? All of us do things that we know are wrong, but, in general, that shouldn’t diminish what we have done right.
The implication that Rav Shlomo’s music is no different than the trash that is being produced today boggles my mind.
At 6:52 PM,
Noyam said…
OOS, MoC and Eman -
I think you may be overreacting. Rav Shlomo, in his capacity as a composer, was an artist. I am sure he would understand, and maybe even be in favor of, other arists borrowing and using his niggunim, and reimagining them in their own artistic. The idea of one artist being inspired by another is as old as art itself. To say that just because the beat is more modern makes the music bad just shows a bias against modern music. However, many people enjoy and ar touched by it.
Another Jew is singing a Rav Shlomo niggun is not a bad thing. Oh, and I think kishke was referring to having women sing on his albums.
And if this recording of Niggun Neshama bothers you, does the one that Neshama Carleback put out bother you? Are Rav Shlomo songs and niggunim so holy that no other artist may touch them? Come on, don't be ridiculous! Or is it only that artists that you approve of, and whose music you like, that can sing the holy, holy niggunim?
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