THE MAGIC OF MUSIC

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

let us Begin by asking the obvious question who here in my audience um you can actually raise your hands because I can actually see you who can actually say that they have a very special place in their heart for music the music for them is something very very important okay Barack Hashem all those wave hands and um yeah this is something um for most of the planets this is something that is extremely extremely powerful powerful um when you're younger and especially when you have more time to listen um and also when you hit my age where your hearing ability starts to go down a little bit so it becomes less relevant but definitely when you can enjoy music and you can dance to music and you can sing with music and you can appreciate music music can become very Central to our lives when I was a teenager um I was a guitarist in a band do not laugh and do not judge me but that's laugh and do not judge me but that's what I was and I can honestly tell you the music was my life um from 16 to 18. it was my greatest passion and most people will tell you that music is special for them but the obvious question is what exactly is it that makes it special and what exactly makes a music into music and the first obvious observation that we have is that music is extremely subjective so one person's music is the next person's

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