Getting Torah to the Heart

I can almost guarantee that you've never learned Torah like this. Tell me about the Nigun Chabura. >> Nigun Chabura is a combination of some of the best stuff we have in Yiddishkeit. It's Torah, it's music, it's connection, and it's a way of trying to express Torah in a very sweet way. Everybody wants to learn, but not everybody likes the way that it's being taught. Everybody loves music. So, we decided, let's put it together. There's so many amazing Jewish musicians who arrange such beautiful lyrics, who sing such beautiful songs. Didn't we once have you? >> We did. I was there. >> And we did a Chabura. We did a Chabura breaking apart your song. You told us the story of your grandfather. >> Yes. >> The light of Hanukkah. It's an amazing story. >> When someone walks into the Nigun Chabura, what are they going to see? What are they going to experience for a beginner? What happens? >> We have the events. We're sitting. There's usually a stage with whichever musicians are there. Everybody has their instruments, but then there's a whole crowd of people listening, and it's you walk into this interesting mix of concert, but sheer It's not really No one's really sure, which that wonder keeps them, you know, guessing and wanting more. The way it works is that I try to take some of their songs and the lyrics, and I try to make a story or make a theme out of the divrei Torah that connect interweaving with their songs. Then they'll play that song to really deepen the idea that I'm saying. And then we go throughout the whole night. >> For those watching, you are on Instagram right now, or you're on your WhatsApp, and opening a safer is a really hard thing to do. Or going to a shiur, it's just like listening to someone speak is a hard thing to do. But this idea of bringing a Torah into your heart through music has been with us for thousands of years. Honestly, I don't think I've seen this anywhere else where there's literally a Torah class, but it's done through music. Um so, yeah, I don't know. Maybe you could speak on like the why why music is so powerful. >> Music goes right to the heart. If you know what's right, but your heart wants something else, unfortunately, most often we're going to go with the heart and go to the other thing, because the heart's more powerful than the mind. And music goes right to the heart. So, if we can get our Torah in our life and our neshama us the heart of the matter. I want that you're going to do it. So, trying to get to the heart is always the heart of the matter.