What I learned from Shabbaton w 1000 Polish- Hungarian Chasidim -18 men choir w conductor and chazan

i want to share an experience i had last i went to a uh shabbaton with between 800 to a thousand people and they were mostly hasidim and the hasidim with the shrimos and the payers and the zoki and the white sox and the black socks and very froome this was the frumest of the froome from williamsburg borough park muncie lakewood and everywhere else it was a sharpness organized by a festive organization and i i'd like to share my feelings because it's it's important not for me to get my feelings out although it's also important but really to bring a message to the listening audience to bring us up to date to our current situation of yiddish kai taxider in america and in our front communities and what do we do with it and how do we react to it so friday night i happen to i come to shul and i place myself by a table up front it's comfortable there and they can dab and peacefully can learn and not be disturbed lo and behold they asked me to move to another table nearby because this table is for the choir think there's a choir tonight it's going to be a choir well yeah there were 18 people in the choir with a conductor all wearing strangles in addition to that there was a cousin took about an hour and a half but let me tell you i had box seats i was right there without much movement i was able to see bird's eye of what's going on how the conductor made like this and like that like that like it and it was very very interesting the first time i saw a hasidis a conductor and everyone looks to him and everyone follows him and he comes makes with his nose to the right and to the left and they got it you know either louder humming went to hum a low hum a high hump i got quiet up up down it nobody say that was friday night shopping stay they did chakras and muslims three and a half hours from nine to twelve thirty for me this was a highlight you know you come for one reason and you end up with another reason so this was very interesting to see how people celebrate a shabbos in a beautiful way and how nagina song in this case khazonus was part of it cantorio renditions of pieces of hazonas from various famous canters is incorporated in the hasidic world some of the composers weren't uh you know hasidim and maybe even not fully religious there was all kinds of music that they put into their repertoire of music and it's interesting how it's become kosherized i mean these people who you know are you'd meet them on the street or in basement rich they're you know they're shouting and screaming and you know why do you have this why do you have that why aren't you doing this and all of a sudden here the music is all kosher and so be it you know they have their rabbis they're abundant they're teachers but this was a very interesting experience to see so many people together going along with 18 people in a choir and a cantor and a cousin leading the the davening in other words the davening the prayers of friday night are being controlled by the 18 people and their conductor and and the baldfield and the cousin and not about feel in this case a a real canter beautiful voice gorgeous voice with a strim i looked at his face it was so serious and so awesome and i felt it was real he really meant it when he closed his eyes and he made with his hand like this not extravagantly you know shaking and moving and crying and jumping i felt he was authentic the next experience was the meal shabbos day i came to the meal i sat down place was pretty empty people just come out now to show and before the meal they had in the four year they had six different types of herring with kihula and bronfen and then whiskey and vodka sodas and cakes i asked you a question you know there's a meal and right there is the entry to entrance to the hallway and they have a beautiful setting it's like extravagant and four different types of fish on your plate and you're being catered and there's waiters why do you have to eat outside you know why a minute be a dainy as the hungarians say the meaning of our ancestors is in our hand this is the way we do it in shabbos we have a kiddush afterwards then we go home to have a meal the fact that we were in this hotel and and and the kiddush is right next door to the to the meal we don't detract from the custom of having kiddush and enjoying a little uh whiskey and and herring in a kiko and that too is important to look at this is the beauty of our religion and yiddish kite and our siddhis kite don't diminish this kihale and this piece of herring and this glass vodka this bonds people together understandably overeating is not good and over drinking is terrible and and on and on we could find a negative in everything but we have to find the positive what's the positive they stick to tradition tradition and what's the tradition you have a kidneys before the meal and this was the second eye opener to me this past weekend and overall i can tell you rabbi say ladies and gentlemen my dear friends the jewish people the religious people the orthodox people the observant people have many shapes and forms and colors and when you see them up front you could appreciate each one's culture and each one's practices and that's what i saw i mean i live with these people i live here in borough park i grew up with these people nevertheless seeing them the way i saw them this weekend was a bird's eye view up close of their lifestyle the women wearing the white bands on their shaytals or if they're just wearing a t-hole dressed in black i'm not saying everyone but it was it stood out you you know it was there weren't sneeze issues i must say 800 to 1000 people men and women oh and of course there's a majitsa a full mojito during the meals and during the talks you know that's stuff that's a given and many of us are chapatnik's hasidim there's room for all of us to learn from each other to learn from the hagas the polish hungarian and the polish and guaranteed together we make a and a beautiful nation and then there's of course the literature world in the spanish world one of the main speakers robert was rabbi ben sasson as farty and i'm asking myself why they bring him here because he's a very entertaining speaker and they like it they like to you know the the the polish from gary hasseton they like to bring someone who's not like them and and hear his angle so that boys it's heir of shabbos and it's shabbos passions service hashem has written himself into the title and the tata understands that people are different that commuters are different but you could bring them all together and if if that was the the one thing that i walked away with was the value of unity of actus all kinds of people some safari and somehow about five to ten people of course the bulk was the polish and hungarian hasidim there were even some literature there so you had a whole gamut of the orthodox community and everyone diving together and learned together and cry together and dance together and it's real actos and another message that we take away is back to basics don't forget that this is the basics of yiddish guide yes this little kidder show big hit the show for them this is a basic and although you have the the whole next door with the meal waiting mini god is saying will be a day no this is a minute and we keep the minute friday night we dabbing with a choir if we're able to to show how beautiful a dabbing could be able to help should be saying because