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When A Song Has A History Ka Ribon Part 2 06 03 2024

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Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay, tight. Um, so we were in middle of Carlebach, R' Carlebach, and uh his songs and the the pieces of it. Now, I want to do a just a little general just a little general overview of song, and then maybe we'll get back we'll circle back to R' Carlebach specifically. Now, the idea that songs are very potent and powerful and could like leave a big impression on whoever listens to them, I think more or less in all different segments of class of the government Muslim. No whether or not there's a specific chazal that says it or not is specific chazal that says it or not is hard to say, but you know, the idea that songs leave a very strong impression on people is is considered of Muslim. Now, there is a Some of the things I'm going to say are famous, some of them less so. So, bear with me. There is a in the hakdamah to the pascha shulchan from R' Carlebach, he brings down a fabulous like story that happened with him and the goan. He says as follows. He says, "When the goan made a siyum on Shir Hashirim, when he finished learning Shir Hashirim, which was the end of Kol Torah Kulah. Whatever seder the goan followed to

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  1. 0:01Okay, tight. Um, so we were in middle of Carlebach, R' Carlebach, and uh his songs
  2. 2:05science and and different things. Then he says he knew the music. The he praised the
  3. 4:38into a real adam gadol." And the kids that she was maskim, and Reb Leib Saris
  4. 6:39was a beautiful song that could be used for, you know, for for yearning for going
  5. 9:11mapah in simon gimmel. Now the magen avraham af enor brings from a sefer chasidim that
  6. 11:14as shul music. So some acharonim say because when you're going to be singing the song
  7. 13:46lands is mostly Islamic you know Arab love songs. He says most Arab songs are love
  8. 15:48You don't have to on the tune. The tune is not important. It's only matters what
  9. 18:21they were standing outside the churches to listen to the songs takes particular offense to that
  10. 20:22halachic. He says, "It's not okay for them to do that." He says, "Hinei uh, b'Shamayim

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