ALEX CLARE AVRAHAM AVINU AND A BAAL TESHUVA YOUTUBE

in the article max has permission on you know foreign nearly all of the of the of the of the songs in all the uh puritan all of the zamiras or the eighth dress whatever's in there it's it's it's all spoken about and discussed broadly in the arts very nice now there's a a a pierce from yom kippur in rosh hashanah now i'm a big music fan obviously and i grew up listening to the music of leonard cohen i love shalom and uh i realized when we were seeing uno sane take i realized that it was actually a leonard cohen song song called who by fire i was reading the words and i was like whoa well leonard cohen writes a paper that's amazing and they're like that's like no no that was once a yom kippur where he was sitting in shul and he was just reading through the max and he was like oh this is interesting wow discussing rosh hashanah yom kippur yomadin discussing what happens in the base digital mila that every living thing is taken into account and counted and valued that every living thing will be judged for life or shalom the opposite who will live who will die how people are gonna die you know it goes into great gory detail you know okay next rafa skila all the good stuff it's all in there and it's you know it's just from what an amazing amazing piece of uh liturgy just blew my mind and i started reading about nasa tokyo and it's and it's it's author it was a man called amnon of maines was a uh one of the early ashkenazi rabona we don't know much about him we know he lived in the middle between the years ten hundred and eleven hundred somewhere around there and we know that he wrote on a sunny sonny taketh but i don't know much else and there may be a few other liturgical songs putin that are attributed to him so i was reading the story of amnon and uh gosh a little bit heavy and a little bit gory amnon made friends with the local bishop and this local bishop gave him an ultimatum he said i'm on convert christianity or i'm going to kill you so hamlet famously asked reflecting the uh sorry herrera marcus for three days it asked for three days to think about it to see what he should do and after three days he came to the bishop and he said to the bishop i'm sorry i'm a jew i'm a jew i'm not going to be anything else i've been does you even if i take on your nourished guy i'm still going to be a jew and i have to live as a jew and if i can't live as a jew then i have to die as one i went to my rob i went to raptor turkey and i said to him rabbi i don't get it i don't get it i know this whole scar varnish thing and i know the whole see after the shania thing whatever but rabbi i've lost everything everything i have like you know three months ago two months ago the world was you know at my feet the future was amazing and now i have nothing left i have no money i have no job i have no means of paying my musicians i have no means of supporting like touring into the future and i don't get it i became a torah a mitzvos i came to shabbos i did everything i could to grow as an individual to have kiribati kim to really feel close to her college borough you know that's all i really wanted and it has backfired in the most spectacular way so uh my he was incredible at kizok it's an amazing person and he said he said wow alex he says don't use tickle abraham avenue like a little bit like abraham avinu like tell me more rabbi and he said um he says you know abraham avinu lived in a time where people didn't understand what kadosha was people had no concept of velocus they'd been so wrapped up in their own lives and their own marriage guides pursuing things made of wood and stone that they forgot about the actors of hashem people had no idea that hashem existed in avraham avinu by process of you know logic he understood that her college baruch was a thing not only that but this thing is hashem he was so benevolent and so kind that ultimately everything i got his borough who wanted to do in the world was from hessed was from kindness and abraham avinu decided to personify that to teach the world that there is an abhista and that this at is times