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okay good
morning to
the here in Hills New York yeah this is
already holding in a while and uh we
have four more Mondays before pm and
it's never too early just to speak about
PM story so uh here we go uh we begin
with the comments
ofab sh kabit of course is the great p
and the author of thei he was born in
Salan turkey which is now Greece Greece
but back then it wasn't I know and he
was born in 1505 he was nft in SAS in
1584 a brother-in-law of the great rakha
Cordo and in the year
1529 as a present to his future uh sh
his future father-in-law he sent a gift
a comment com on Milla s
called and this commentary probably the
most extensive commentary on the Milla
was written by
rabitz and is quoted by many after him
not only as a a p on but even so for
instance in his quotes some of the of
Reby and asai yeah you know the Jews of
salonica were so strong they were the
ones GLW up a crator in did you know
that I I saw that cror I didn't know
that they're very strong M they were the
on the first uh people who were in the
port in h for also okay very interesting
so the the Mani yeah that brings down a
fascinating question on the Milla and
that is he wants to know if you uh if
you are in tune with some of the details
of the M you'll notice that he was
certainly trying to please um the
participants of the party and certainly
allow all the participants to enjoy and
experience every type of pleasure so he
was trying to satiate their sense of
sight with beautiful tapestries also
theisha in his commentary on the Milla
the Milla sarum he says not only with
tapestries but with Z that he set up he
was trying to satisfy their sense of
smell where there was all types of food
and fragrant Aromas he was trying to
satisfy their sense of hearing of excuse
me of of taste with delicious F food he
was trying to uh satisfy all of their
senses however there is one item that is
conspicuously absent from the party of a
and that is nothing in the mill is
described about any music being played
at the party of uh a and the question is
why
after all you can't have a good party
without music I mean who makes any type
of party without music so it would seem
rather strange and here he's trying to
satisfy
everyone and he doesn't have any music
at the party every other sense whether
it's R whether it's Ria whether it's uh
mishos the thei says he had beautiful
beds um very fine linen he had
everything was experienced and why is
there no music so interestingly the Mani
is not the only one who asked this
question actually if you look at number
three the maram shi maram shi is known
as one of the most um laser sharp
concise comments on CHAS in fact the
Mari has very much gone out of style
because people like to learn ldos and
andar and and kakas but really if you
want to have the the deepest
understanding just of the
sh you need to know
the they're very into the also inare VAR
into the in fact recently wrote like
four volume work on
the so anyway at the end
of that's one thing that is not famous
for but he also wrote at the end
of it's
called um at the end of and he's also
bothered by this question he says why
was there no music at the
sud he says like this one of the
criteria of how
a orchestrated this event was he wanted
to
do
is now let's say somebody goes to a
party they don't want to eat so they
don't have to eat let's say someone they
don't want to look they don't have to
look but what are you going to do if
there's music you're going to hear it
again against your will and therefore
music did not fit the criteria of's
party you can't play music what if
somebody doesn't want that kind of
music or he says um he look at number
three he
says you're going have to hear it
against your
will or the says of course there was
music it goes without saying there was
music it was obvious there was music you
can't have a party without music and
therefore that's the one item that was
left out because that is self
understood and then the M says another
reason why there's no music is since the
party
was where did not impose on anybody to
do any a against their
will in other words the food was ker
everything was ker realized that to
cause the Jews to stumble he has to get
them to sin on their own so if he's
going to play music that would be
coercing them to violate the the you
know why because the says that from the
time of we
took that we would not listen to music
at a party and therefore if he would
impose music on the people he would be
forcing us to violate our own
principles these are a few answers of
but let us explore the answer
of the look at number one on your
sheet
he wrote correct
things he
says on the third
line you see how tried to please all the
five
senses until nothing was
missing had a good meal after you finish
you you you smell good
sense says
says he orchestrated that the should be
in the
courtyard there were certainly fragrant
Aromas and
next he
certainly uh fixed and prepared
beautiful tapestries different
colors
which would be very pleasing in the
sunlight
and he made very nice beds to satisfy
the sense of
touch so we have four out of the five
senses but we're missing one what
happened to the music next
paragraph I heard from a old sage
a wondrous reason why music was
absent I will add to what I
heard in an understandable
way and that
is the following what was A's purpose of
making the suda he wanted to get us to
sin he wanted to causes us to stumble
says two
lines you know
is very good see only the best over
here since we know that music
ises why is music so sweet why do people
like music if I ask you why do why is
music enjoyable spiritual moves what is
it you know why because before a person
was created
says when the was in sh you know what
you hear in sh in sh all you he all day
is
singing and that experience that the has
in sh is so programmed into the soul
that every time the soul hears it it is
elevated to a a different existence it's
elevated to life before this measly
world that is the connection that
to music
says
know because we we were accustomed to it
when we were upstairs
says you you don't believe what I'm
telling
you anyone who does not deny the simple
interpretation of the of will
acknowledge the fact that upstairs in
shamay what's taking place is Shir
the Angels Above they open up their
mouth with the with the beautiful sounds
of their
wings there are some people they like
music so much that their soul is so
elevated that you could hit them you
could smack them you could they're in a
different
world they're in a different
world
it's like they're in a self-imposed coma
they're in a
trance some people fall asleep that's
why I don't get insulted when people
fall asleep on my she doesn't mean they
don't like this sh mean it's it's so
sweet to them it's like music to them
that's I never
get because the nees is uh
contemplates
the the body begins to rest in other
words the is so excited and the body is
so put at
rest like a
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corpse then the the says an unbelievable
thing you have a little
baby right what do you do L you sing a
song to the baby what does the baby do
falls asleep why why is the baby so
comforted by music the answer is cuz the
baby just was in Shay and he still has
the music of shamay ringing in his ears
so the baby is much more in tune with
his previous connection to than a
regular person as soon as the baby
starts to hear
music right the baby says h i remember
the good old days but you sing music to
an adult it's hard to remember so long
ago it's hard to remember what you ate
for breakfast let alone let alone what
happened before you were born so he
says like nursing young they will not
sleep unless they hear hear the voice of
song that's why people don't know you
know they put on baby b baby b is not
what they're playing in Shay right Baby
Mo no they're singing in
sh that you have to know what the right
songs to
sing
when you sing to a baby he rests in his
bed and their sleep is sweet why listen
to these
words the music of is still ringing in
their ears is still stirring their
souls because of the the small amount of
time that elaps between now and when
they when they were there he says like
this or a sick person one who is is ill
the physical Sensations are dulled and
waned someone who is ill his K are
weaker his K of Soul are stronger and
therefore to him music is much more
powerful and effective than for a young
person for a healthy
person therefore
says the goal of was to get people to
eat eat more and more and more and if
somebody he's eating and all of a sudden
you hear
music the hamburger is going to drop
whatever you're eating is going to drop
you're not going to be focused on the
food you're just going to be focused on
the music and the music is going to
interfere with
the to get the people to eat and
therefore this party was missing
something it was missing music he
says L somebody not eat right at a a Sy
Symphony Orchestra they're not they're
not nobody's walking around hot dogs
here right nobody's selling nobody's
selling food concessions popcorn there's
no eating then CU if you're going to eat
you can't appreciate the
music ah so this is the answer
ofz that the reason why there is no
music music has a very powerful pull on
the soul and will distract the
participants from the intended purpose
of the suda doesn't
work what doesn't work with gave
different answer M didn't give this
answer right mam Shi said either there
definitely was music or the Jews had
swore they're not going to listen to it
okay
interestingly comes the lak
Mas M Solomon and he is troubled by this
answer of
kabit and he's uh bothered by the fact
that if A's intention was to get the
Jewish people to
sin you would think then that music
would have been his most powerful weapon
and his most powerful tool and his
Arsenal to try to engender sin after all
we all know that there are certain types
of music that only elicit types of loose
and and TAA and desire in fact certain
beats and certain sounds are known and
proven to be connected to certain types
of desires that people have so if
anything if's plan was to get CLA to sin
in fact the
migar is a commentary on on on M written
by
the he writes very clearly the entire
intention of the sudo was to get cl to
sin he writes look at number two on the
PK um
why is inviting all of these political
um figures to his party so he writes
that the purpose of the party and the
reason why he invited all these
officials because the whole purpose of
the party
was he only wanted to get us to sin and
therefore he invited all the government
officials of all the lands to get good
advice and Good Counsel how to best
persuade us to sin that's why he made a
meal for seven days
inviting and when the party was over and
he saw his success he made additional
parties for the people in shushan to uh
to get them to sim
more says in if you look in the third
paragraph of number
two why is Milla telling us about the
Ambiance of the party it's to teach what
A's plan was to try to incite sin he
made them uh sit on
buts he wanted them to sit on the sh he
trying
to and he made them with very nice
colors to attract their attention
because it wasn't just tapestries and
curtains that were hanging but next to
them says he situated zo so that once he
drew the attention of the Jews through
these nice ornaments they would look at
the Z so ask Solomon if the whole
purpose of the suda was to cause sin
then it would seem that left out perhaps
the most powerful tool to uh engender
sin so say this brings us into a very
interesting discussion this
morning and that
is yeah is there yes
yeah is that yeah because it could warm
you and you're you're something you sit
on creates heat so even if it's not it
can be
yeah so especially if you sink in
especially if it's kush yeah in fact the
The Story Goes that when the stier was
going to meet his potential kala right
K's sister he was on a train but he
didn't want to sit on the train cuz uh
it was aat so he stood the whole time
but unfortunately the first meeting with
his potential
kala it was not I mean it was it's good
for sha B but he was not up for that
date right oh
boy things worked
out okay anyway so this brings us into a
very interesting discussion and that
is understanding the concept of Music in
Jewish thought and in our
UMES in all of our our Jewish literature
how do we understand the function and
the Tas and the purpose of music and
what music's effect is upon us we know
all the way at the beginning of
barous it says um
in it says about what the early
Generations from the descendants of that
one of the generations he was the one
who invented the kar the lur ugab the
harp
says these are types of
instruments that music is a great wisdom
is a great discipline in other words
music is not just a
talent but it's a it's a it's a body of
knowledge didn't play he did but you see
from this Ezra that the concept of music
is it's a like chemistry biology physics
music is considered a discipline of
knowledge in fact there's an amazing ran
the ran wrote a saer called
sh and commenting
in in the sh the ra writes on the the
talks about different types of harps one
place it says the harp had seven strings
and one place it says the harp had eight
strings and one place it said the harp
had 10 strings so the says like this
that the harp of the B mikdash was seven
strings like the P says in
and then continues but it
says yeah the carp in the time of
Messiah will be of eight
strings that's why the concept of is
associated with the number seven seven
days of the week but the concept
of is the number eight but the harp of
will have 10 strings like we say
on look look at these words
says what were all these instruments
doing in the why in the are we playing
instruments says
ra the instruments alluded to various
Acquisitions of thought which are
connected to the spirit says
raan there is nothing more subtle
there's nothing
more
fine in this world than music music is
considered the most spiritual of all
physical things fine there is nothing
more dark there's nothing more subtle
than music music is the most spiritual
of the physical you can't put your
finger on it you can't it's not tangible
it's not
quantifiable like the says in the he
quotes
the sound
speech
wind what's the meaning that that right
now the the musical instrument has seven
strings
and eight
strings
and have 10 says ran right now in this
world we recognize and we can understand
seven spher of's existence seven
manifestations and the these were
alluded to in the b mikdash in the
mishan in the man that had
seveno also B alluded to this says ran
when he
says
but we will comprehend an additional
which is the
eth and in comprehension of will be
complete we will understand 10 SP so the
musical instruments actually alluded
to understandings of hasem in other
words music is not just something you
listen to or you get elevated from but
in a way there's a certain and a certain
comprehension which is only under stood
through the medium of Music in
fact of the V he writes in
his he
says that the V said all disciplines are
needed to understand T right there's a
concept that there are seven disciplines
of they are all required to understand T
fully
um
and knowing them is necessary to
understanding the Torah and you know
what they are you ready number one
algebra number two
M trigonometry
maybe
mathematics says
the the go prays very much the IPL of of
Music he would say that most secrets of
the T and most reasoning of the T and
most secrets of
the and most secrets of you can't know
if you don't understand
music the girl would
say most of the of the and the secrets
of the and the secrets of tun you can't
understand without knowing music and
through the knowledge of music
it is possible for a person to die if a
person plummets the depth of music their
soul could could become so attached to
Hashem and the sweetness of it that they
could actually leave this world but on
the other hand you could
be through the knowledge of
music and he would say when M came down
from you know what he brought with him
not only did he bring Tyra he brought
nunim down with him from
at Mount Si in the in the Sinai
Peninsula south of the Holy Land okay
where where is uh this
says all the other music that you hear
today is just
a distortion of the
original brought down from har so an
amazing thing by the way the r writes
you know in toim
many of the begin with the
word many of them begin
um many of
them what are these
Expressions what's the expression what's
the
expression he's going on the fourth
peric
of three types of Praise are employed
you
have and
M
means he was the
conductor through the conductor the M
it's not like just said a m he took a
conductor and he needed a conductor not
only to play the song but to bring out
the idea of the m a conductor was
needed the conductor delivered and
administered to the
singers that's why you don't find you
find but not or it belonged to the
conductor and it was delivered and
administered to others under them
says there's well there was a special
CLE called Theus and through this CLE
the sheer and the nigan said and each
misar was connected to a different
instrument in other words if you wanted
to arouse a certain Hasa and a certain
feeling and a certain understanding in
the mismar different were needed you
needed one type of instrument for one
type of mizmar and one type of
instrument for another type of M so you
say huh I don't get it I don't have any
understanding of why one M needs Aus and
one needs a and one needs AIG the answer
is because you have no understanding of
the misar of that's why you have no
understanding says Solomon that he heard
from aak that if you don't understand
why certain musical instruments is
needed for a certain mmar that means you
don't understand the mmar you can learn
all the Pim and all the you are clueless
in in terms of understanding to
H say it's
a in order to understand the connection
in other words every misar is trying to
bring out a different idea a different
thought a different comprehension and
therefore a different instrument was
needed look at number 10 and this is
where we start to delve into the
subject zamu Mas you ever hear that
expression inum zamu Mas now by the look
of
some musicians
today you would think maskill is the
furthest thing thing from their
Z right traditionally people who are
into music are often not into hasala
hascal what I mean the
uh the uh intellect side of it in other
words often people associate the music
with the Arts and the Arts are not
usually associated with disciplines of
the intellect you know people say either
I'm a math brain or I'm an art brain I'm
right brained or left right I'm a righty
or a
lefty but in we see
no music comprehension
say every intelligent person should
sing not just f
song music that arouses the
heart music that gives
intellect so the is introducing a new
concept the concept is music offers
thought music offers thought so this is
the share are you ready let's
CL and this is a thaton
and this is something that he is delving
into when we say that music music offers
thought what does that mean does it
offer thought that you never thought of
before is music giving a person new
ideas and new insights and new
comprehension of things that they never
thought of before or no music cannot
teach a person any new wisdom all it
could do is bring out ideas that you
already have which means a person may
have in their heart certain thoughts
certain ideas let's say for
example every person has in their heart
buried deep downem the question is it's
you're not really in touch with it we're
not really feeling it so M what music
will do is music has the capacity to
access a deep buried thought and bring
it out to the Forefront I do it on the
other hand people have within them
buried desire and what music will do is
it will fish out and access improper
feelings and bring that to the Forefront
in other words the kakira is does music
make you think thoughts you never had
before or make you desire things you
never desired before or does music
merely bring to the Forefront what's
already embedded in your heart
what's there is an age
old can you sing to Jewish words and to
Holy
words can you take so you say I hope so
because you may not be familiar
but k
Ruba theba of the that we
sing come from non-jewish
sources yeah and the r is says
Solomon that the songs that come from
countries they sound Arabic they do and
the songs that come from Poland and
Germany sound like renissance music and
and the songs and the songs of any
country in the world our influence and
I'm not going to get into which which
countries and which kasos but there's no
question that there's a there there's an
effect of the the music of a certain
location affects greatly the the songs
that the Jews are singing in fact is to
allow using the songs of of for
Kad but it
isings down
in that can is it permitted he says
um whether it's a waltz or a March or or
or whatever songs there are they are
greatly influ even the
K even
K why do Lane differently than
Ash came down from with two types of
laning why does one type of laning sound
Middle Eastern and one type of laning
sound European
say could you
sing the master is very lengthy and he
says you're not allowed to and he brings
the from
the that he
in the name of the that someone who has
a beautiful voice should be careful not
to
sing now he never said not to sing songs
of course you're not supposed to sing
songs the question is should are you
allowed to
sing and
the said from the you should be careful
not
to a
general or is this like a church
anything any non-jewish song any
non-jewish song well the says that the
that the um the did not quote
the accurately why cuz maram D Lano
writes that is why I composed most of my
songs with Arabic
tunes and
says I see that many complain about the
fact that in the shes or singing kades
and kadha to non-jewish songs says
what's the problem a
there's no problem you're allowed
to you're allowed to so sayson we see
there's an age-old debate whether you
are allowed to use non-jewish Tunes to
Kadesh and kadus or you're not allowed
to says
the what's
the what's the whether you could use a
non-jewish tune or not it's totally on
the that we were
just the question is a tune music
does it create new thoughts or does it
merely bring out the thoughts that
already in your mind if a song has the
capacity to make you think ideas that
you never thought of before then to use
a non-jewish tune even to Jewish words
because even though in your mind you're
thinking kades kades kades but if that
tune which was first associated with AAR
or the ideas of is now ringing in your
mind you're going to start thinking
thoughts
but if music doesn't have that capacity
if a nigon does not have the ability to
make a person think new ideas but all it
does is it merely brings out from your
heart the thoughts you already have so
if you're thinking thinking in your mind
kades kades kados then the music all
it's going to do is make you feel those
thoughts more powerfully it's not going
to make you think thoughts you never had
before well say
Solomon
is that we are
M and if you don't think we're M then
you are being a naive where the songs
come
from therefore
sayson is traditionally for hundreds and
hundreds of years the songs we sing in
the sh were not
created by sikim and even when they were
where did they come from they were
influenced by the climate and the
environment is we allow such a thing
that means means that we maintain that
the power of anigan is it merely brings
out from our hearts what's already what
we're already thinking in other words
it's not going to cause us to think it's
not going to cause us to have feelings
of it merely once it's put to Holy words
it will make us feel those holy words
more
deeply in fact the rambam himself the
ramam himself bemon the
fact that at a or
if somebody wants to sing an Arabic song
of praise to
hasem oh you can't do it it's Gish it's
Gish it's Gish and if somebody wants to
sing a Jewish song of nonsense with
ridiculous words oh it's kadash says
around they're a bunch of
fools who cares who cares what the where
the song comes from it's all a matter of
the words if the words are nice and
they're praising Hashem even if they're
in Arabic it's a good thing to do but if
the words make no sense the words are
ridiculous the fact that they're WR
they're Jewish quote unquote Jewish
doesn't make a
difference so we maintain B that music's
ability is merely to bring out from our
hearts what's already latent there but
it will not engender new ideas that we
never had
before by the way interestingly Legend
has it that the said that he's prepared
to give up some of his
to have a deeper understanding of the of
music because he felt that with a deeper
understanding of Music he'd be able to
reach higher levels of and so forth and
he was even prepared to give up some of
his by the way there's a famous
chuva that asked now I'm not going to
say who and if you don't know who then
you don't deserve to be
told about a certain individual who is a
great composer
one of the greatest Jewish composers of
all
time
and the uh unfortunately there were
reports that anos not justos was L
that that he uh did things which were
inappropriate and what's reported in
this chuva
is what did he do he gathered Boys and
Girls Together to dance together which
is which is a big problem which is a
problem which is user says the question
is can we Now sing his
music can we sing his music can we sing
his
songs or do we have to uh find other
composers with other
Tunes or um who we stick with the golden
oldies after all says Raa this
individual now the reports are that he's
uh he's involved in inappropriate
behavior
say the six
I don't see any problem singing his
songs but now Ra was asked Are you
allowed to sing the songs that he
composed
originally now I can't tell
you which which album was before whether
was before or after I can't tell you one
thing I can tell you is that's good
music right
but what the question is can we sing his
nunim says I don't see any is well why
because he he composed
it says ra yeah but now the report is
that he's not acting appropriately ra
invokes
aish you imagine ra invokes aish why
because in talks about the
of and they're still
called but what do you
mean but there are that that that was
the same who served 80 years and then
became
a
say and yet they're still
called wouldn't it be better to to erase
so what do you want was ready there's no
way to be but nobody's going to say that
the music of this individual
was that you have to sing as he marched
down to the
it's
not but say
fine
we but why
call wouldn't it be better not to give
him that memory after all if he is right
now if he's
a the fact that it's still
called means that since he
was there's no problem remembering
somebody who became a Rasha as long as
you're remembering him from a time that
he was a s
ra argues the says
that was not who became a saduki so
maybe the reason why the ramam says that
because the ramam would never can the
fact that the are still
called that the r is forced to say this
is a different and maybe that shows that
the ramam would say that you're not
allowed to remember the things that a
Rasha did even when he was ker that's
why the ramam is was forced to say this
was a
different say it's not that that's why
the r feels that that's not the
same it's had other reasons why he
doesn't want to say that's and therefore
why make when we don't need to if the
says you're allowed to remember the at a
time from when he was a then the
assumably presumably the Raman would
agree and then rosha says like this
it's to say that everybody agrees that
you're allowed to maintain something
that a Russ did from a time they were
sadic why CU is a that a wrote you have
to burn
it but what if a good guy wrote a sa and
then he became a man what do you do with
the
sa
is you lay it you lay it but it's
written by am in doesn't matter but he
wrote it when he was a good guy so you
say no but that what are you going to do
with that he wrote has kha you can't
burn it says is it why all to read it
that means the is of remembering Arash
is only remember what he did from the
time he was a rash but to remember what
he did before he was a rash that's
M say and therefore in this situation
all the nun all the albums that came out
before these
towards what
about what about could they sing
these there's no whatsoever says for
someone to sing a of of someone
who's considered a Russia if those nun
were composed at a time that they they
were
aad says what about the nunum that were
composed after somebody became a
Russia saysa
H it's not clear that you can't sing
those nunim if the nunim are nice
nunim and they're beautiful nunim and
there's
no by singing the and you're
remembering a Ras he says it's the of of
Russ is only
on say forra he wrote that he wrote but
let's say the Russ wrote he invented a
machine let's say a guy who was a sadic
and he became a Russ and he invented
glass you can't wear glasses now or he
invented
technology there's
no it's doubtful let's say let's say he
wrote a book about how to uh write um
script or how to how to uh plant plants
in the winter you can't read the book
just because he's a Russ the of is only
on not
onig is not
Kad yeah but we use it for Kad
yeah you use it for Kad you you also use
shoes when you're ding kadha you're
wearing shoes doesn't make your shoes K
you also wipe your mouth with a tissue
it doesn't make the tissue Kad even
though you're cleaning your mouth when
you say Kad a nigon is only a tool
there's no
Kad
therefore that a that was composed
by a Russ even after he became a Russia
you could sing
it but Andes they should be not to sing
the Nim of someone who's a Russia if the
nun were composed after they became a
Russ but says this man that we're
talking about who we're not saying who
it is he's not a
Russia he's not a ker he's a he's a m
he's a mm in he's a m in the Tyra he's
not a par either one thing that he did
was and prz together Boys and Girls
Together to dance it's AA and it's kalro
and it's an is
but it doesn't make him a Russia he is
what's
called and says not even
a
he's not everybody does a a
he there's an to sing
the now what are we going to do every
guy who puts out a CD we're going to
have to make a in his personal life does
he speak at the table he's not an aid
kadan
he's not an aid kadan to get an aid
kadan so we make him sure he's a kaser
now all of a sudden every time I pop a
CD into the car have to make sure the
guy doesn't speak lar speaks that's his
problem that he's going to go to geham
now I can't sing his song so it says
someone who's not a ker he's just an
aaran in one inion even for B and even
for B there's no in not to sing his n
you know we we were we were we were
stuck we were going to do it's
like we were able to uh again I don't
know not commenting on anybody's
personal life what he did what he didn't
to whatever he
is I don't I don't have to judge anybody
I'm just reading to you the cha but one
thing you see from Raa one second is
there Raa is saying that a nigan per se
does not have any inherent K you could
take a nigan even he says of a and you
could sing it to K
maybe shouldn't but there's nothing
inherent about the this is the in
other
words maintained to take a niggan from a
the niggan itself will maybe engender in
your heart wrong feelings
but is we do sing the from other and we
allow it to enter the daving because we
maintain that a per se is just a
tool and it depends what you use it for
all it does it it engenders and it
brings out from your heart what's
already there so
says just back up a second yeah the was
church
music the tun the tune the tune okay I
have
I I could tell you A lot of nunim that
very surprised where they go no but was
he was okay interesting so R coming back
to our question of why did not allow
music at the sud
sayon want
says music is just a tool music does not
does not engender in the heart new
thoughts that you never would have
thought there's no way if you have a
good person and he hears I'm not talking
about lyrics lyrics is a problem but
just the tune the tune will merely bring
out from your heart what you're already
thinking so let's examine then what is
deep down and embedded in the heart of a
Jew so we know the rambam says that
let's say an individual who um is
compromizing uh their wife's security
and health so under certain
circumstances what do we
do we force somebody to give a get until
he says I want to right we we he hears a
guy he's supposed to divorce his wife we
say divorce wife no I don't want to you
have to no if I have to then it's not a
good gu so we smack him and we smack him
and he says yeah i w i w I want but he
doesn't want we forced him says the ra
like this somebody who doesn't want to
give a g the answer is he
says a look at number 15 the
round we're almost done we're almost
done it's much earlier than we usually
are
right he
says someone who doesn't want to divorce
his
wife he wants to be a believing
Jew he really deep down wants to do all
the he wants to distance himself from
sin right really deep down in the heart
of a Jew everybody wants to do the right
thing Ro what's the only
problem it's that has become strong but
when we smack him we're not forcing him
to give the G we're just beating down
thear the real feelings of his heart of
come out like the
says our will is to do your your
will we
have or like rash
brings
right right the brings number
four we force someone to bring a carb I
would think no how do you force someone
to do
something knew that deep down in the
heart of every are the feelings
of the feelings of the true desire to do
the will of things that interfere with
our was afraid if he allow music I'm not
done if he would allow music to be
played to to be played at the suda it
would counteract and contravene the
whole purpose of the suda all of a
sudden the Jews would hear music and the
feelings of and would be brought to the
Forefront and they would drop the whole
suda and they would do CH and since the
whole purpose of the
sud was to get clly to sin he was afraid
through the of music through the power
of music it would engender CH and and
that's why there was no music at the sud
say one last cha
here why am I doing this interesting
cha also have a very personal connection
to this cha the question
is good
old are you allowed they want to sing uh
they want to sing their n sometimes in
order to fit the the into the words
they repeat words you're not allow are
you oh so here we have it you heard it
here first you're not allowed to do
it are you is a allowed to repeat words
no no the answer is no now the reason
the answer is no by the the reason I'm
bringing this because the chuva is asked
from
AR who was my great-grandfather he was
the
of so he he asked allowed to allowed to
repeat words well ra says that that
repeat words
in the rabbis are not happy we're not
pleased and it says what do you want
from me already
the cried out against this but what we
do do whatever they want they don't
listen to
us say now there are three different
categories there's when they repeat
words but it means
something for example
in
there's only one
it's is going on all of them but like to
repeat the on each one so it has meaning
it's just not necessary so it says
they're not allowed to do that but it's
not considered a
heck it's not considered a heick
however if it has a false if by
repeating it has a like they
say
sh shab and they stick in shabas after
everything so there it actually has a
false meaning
because means that you should Rejoice
from hashem's good and now when you say
sh it implies from the good of shabus
say and
they have to go back to beginning they
have to repeat
the what if it just has no meaning at
all so then says that's like somebody
just stumbling in their words and they
don't have to
be so now the question is do you need to
be so if they're just going back and
repeating and they're just repeating and
they're going in order that then even
though you don't have to protest because
you only have to protest someone
says however if if it has a false
meaning or it has a strange meaning then
you should
be this is something that um no meaning
no meaning no meaning at all little to
stick it I don't know it sounds like
it's just
like the over here is the words of the
ran the ran
says
music has a spiritual power a spiritual
pull and that is why did not utilize
music at his sud you've just experienced
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