Satmar Rebbe : "The new singers - Disgusting"
Satmar Rebbe attacked the Jewish music industry: "Cools down fear of Heaven" • Why do Ashkenazi yeshivas learn coldly?
- Moshe Weisberg, Behadrey Haredim
- ח' טבת התשע"ד
In a talk to yeshiva ketana students in Kiryat Yoel in Monroe on occasion of the days of Shovevi"m, the Satmar Rebbe told the yeshiva students "that Rabbi Shaul Brach zt"l Rabbi of Kosice was Ashkenazi, and he came to the town Sigott to the 'Kedushas Yom Tov' zt"l who was a chassidic Rebbe and said "at Ashkenazi yeshivos where I learned they learn better than in Hasidic yeshivos."
"Replied the Kedushas Yom Tov with a parable: two women who cook soup, one cooks delicious soup exactly according to the rules of cooking, but serves the soup is cold and the other cooks not the best soup, but serves hot soup, people will eat more hot soup and not the delicious and cold one."
"So too Ashkenazi yeshivas learn better but it's cold, Hasidic yeshivas study warmly with the fire of Torah."
"There's a saying known around the world - 'the Chazanim are nernim'. The Tzadikim said pshat about this saying, because the Olam Ha'elyon has a few halls, and the hall of music playing is near the hall of Tshuva, and if the chazzan stands in the hall of playing and doesn't go into the hall of tshuva, he is really 'ner' about it."
"Today," the Rebbe said. "there are new singers who are 'nernim', empty of any spark of yiras shomayim who compose melodies, as is known the melody brings out the inner soul of the composer of the tune, and when they sing the tune they interact with the inner soul, when a Jew who is a real yere shomayim, a real tzadik etc. composes a tune, when one sings it, one connects to the soul of the composer and absorbs holiness and godliness."
"I remember the Rebbe the Imray Chaim of Vizhnitz, who used to sit around and sing melodies which the Shkalovar Rebbe composed and he was not of this world while singing. He connected his mind with the composer. And vice versa - on the contrary G-d forbid. While singing melodies whose composer is light headed and empty of yiras shomayim, one connects with him while singing with the pnimius of the composer and absorbs impurity rachmona litzlan, it's really disgusting to see and hear new singers. Their songs cool down any spark of yiras shomayim and the learning afterwards is cool."
"Replied the Kedushas Yom Tov with a parable: two women who cook soup, one cooks delicious soup exactly according to the rules of cooking, but serves the soup is cold and the other cooks not the best soup, but serves hot soup, people will eat more hot soup and not the delicious and cold one."
"So too Ashkenazi yeshivas learn better but it's cold, Hasidic yeshivas study warmly with the fire of Torah."
"There's a saying known around the world - 'the Chazanim are nernim'. The Tzadikim said pshat about this saying, because the Olam Ha'elyon has a few halls, and the hall of music playing is near the hall of Tshuva, and if the chazzan stands in the hall of playing and doesn't go into the hall of tshuva, he is really 'ner' about it."
"Today," the Rebbe said. "there are new singers who are 'nernim', empty of any spark of yiras shomayim who compose melodies, as is known the melody brings out the inner soul of the composer of the tune, and when they sing the tune they interact with the inner soul, when a Jew who is a real yere shomayim, a real tzadik etc. composes a tune, when one sings it, one connects to the soul of the composer and absorbs holiness and godliness."
"I remember the Rebbe the Imray Chaim of Vizhnitz, who used to sit around and sing melodies which the Shkalovar Rebbe composed and he was not of this world while singing. He connected his mind with the composer. And vice versa - on the contrary G-d forbid. While singing melodies whose composer is light headed and empty of yiras shomayim, one connects with him while singing with the pnimius of the composer and absorbs impurity rachmona litzlan, it's really disgusting to see and hear new singers. Their songs cool down any spark of yiras shomayim and the learning afterwards is cool."