Kumi Roni Balaylah: Songs that Cut Through (Tisha B'Av Night)

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

It's a strange thing to sit together on this night and to single This is when the memory is fresh. When the lessons have been learned, when the gates are open, it's impossible to sing. Perhaps it's for specifically this reason that in this moment we have no choice but to sing because we no longer remember. Because the lessons aren't fresh. Because it's been so so long. Layers and layers and layers and layers over the decades and the centuries and the eras have settled collectively upon our soul. It's so difficult to feel. It's so contrary to our generation, to sit and sink into a real feeling. And so in order to remember, we sing. We sing zamirus. The zamir is a song but lisar means to cut zimra. The sadikim say is not just passages of songs. It's using our inner machete to shop [snorts] through the wilderness of a world that we attempt to heal with prayer. The intention now is to find some way to cut to cut through the layers layer after layer after layer after layer after layer deep down into the innermost recesses of our hearts and souls. to remember to wake up. So the exercise perhaps is is not really about the content of of singing or the songs that we'll sing but it's the fact that we shall do so now together. mirror. There's nothing more beautiful than to sing together, than to harmonize together, than to be together, than to be together, to feel together, because Amis is the heart of the world. And as incomprehensible as it is for one person to battle another, it's incomprehensible for one limb to turn against the other. It's absolutely unfathomable for one heart to be fragmented in such a way that the heart itself that's supposed to

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1. 0:00It's a strange thing to sit together on this night and to single This is…
2. 4:12than to be together, to feel together, because Amis is the heart of the world. And…
3. 8:31[singing] is God. [singing]…
4. 12:22[singing] Oh, amazing. [singing] like [singing]…
5. 17:11Da [singing] da da. [singing] [music]…
6. 21:08[singing] Don't tell me I go. You tell me. [singing] of all [singing] your [singing] Oh…
7. 25:52next song we're going to sing together has particularly deep meaning in this moment. moment. Mamish,…
8. 29:45[singing] Come on. Oh my [singing] god. [singing] Awesome. [singing]…
9. 34:02[singing] I and [singing] we [singing] threw [singing] [singing and music]…
10. 37:54home to the embrace of the creator. Home. We want to go home. We're on Admas…

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