יסוד החסידות ושורש העבודה התמימה שיתברר ויתאמת אצל האדם מה חובתו בעולמו (ש)האדם לא נברא אלא להתענג על ה’ (מסילת ישרים א׳)
Joey: I was in Europe with the heiligeh Bais Medrash Ohr Gedalia chevra, visiting and learning about the various places of our people’s past. We were in
the streets of Slabodka after having toured the famous Slabodka Yeshiva building, speaking over the inyanim of mussar for which the Yeshiva was most well-known. Standing there with the talented Yaakov Beer, he and I began learning the first words of the Mesilas Yesharim - יסוד החסידות ושורש העבודה התמימה - It didn’t take long we took out our guitars, and right outside the great yeshiva with all the chevra, this deep niggun was born.
Why does kempeh go with a Nazi style haircut??
ReplyDeleteThe niggun skips some important words and implies a message very different from what the ramchal is saying.
ReplyDeleteSinging is not part of the litvish messorah.
ReplyDeleteNext thing you know, they'll have musical Hallel and chazzanus
Followed by a kumzitz every motzei shabbat.
Maybe even Thursday nite together with chulent.
It's clear that you're being facetious and a לץ. Nonetheless, a couple of points:
Delete1) For a period of time, Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz זכר צדיק לברכה, was the Rosh Yeshiva in the Knesses Beis Yitzchok Yeshiva in Slabodka.
2) Rav Boruch Ber composed many niggunim, presumably at least some were composed in Slabodka.
I'm neither endorsing or opposing the above song, which I haven't even heard yet.
Knesset Bet Yitzchak was a separate yeshiva from the Alter's Yeshiva that was not part of the Lakewood messorah. Rav Aaron z"l did not attend there
DeleteEventually, Bet Yitzchak was finally thrown out of Slabodka.
Yes, I'm being facetious, cause commenters here criticize what they claim is not their messorah. Like rebbes visiting their chasidim here from Brooklyn, like separate seating which the yeshivot took from chasidim, and musical Hallel which not singing is specifically against halacha.
like separate seating which the yeshivot took from chasidim
DeleteHow wrong you are.
Sefer Haprdas of Rashi (איסור והיתר סי' כט-ל) explicitly says that men and women may not eat a meal together, or otherwise mingle.
Birkei Yosef quotes the Sefer Chasidim of Rav Yehuda Hachasid says a wedding which had mixed seating cannot say
שהשמחה במעונו
at Birchas Hamazon.
The Bach and Beis Shmuel quote a different Rishon and have the same conclusion.
All this is from 18th century chasidim??