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May 1, 2011
Interesting Psak: Acapella Music During Sefira
Bechadrei quotes an interesting psak from Rav Yisrael Belsky about listening to acapella music during sefiras ha'omer.
According to what is quoted, Rav Belsky said that nowadays the public looks for all sorts of leniencies, including listening to vocal music even if it is processed digitally and sounds exactly like regular music. People, he says, have gotten used to the idea that everything can be replaced. There are rolls that are kosher l'pesach, and now stores sell music that is kosher for sefiras ha'omer, and people assume because it was sold in a frum store it is really kosher.
Rav Belsky then issued his psak sayign that one can only listen to vocal music where it only has men singing with no musical accompaniment and with no digital processing, which is what much of today's acapella music goes through.
As always, never trust a psak seen on the internet and not heard or seen firsthand. research before you change your own hanhaga.
According to what is quoted, Rav Belsky said that nowadays the public looks for all sorts of leniencies, including listening to vocal music even if it is processed digitally and sounds exactly like regular music. People, he says, have gotten used to the idea that everything can be replaced. There are rolls that are kosher l'pesach, and now stores sell music that is kosher for sefiras ha'omer, and people assume because it was sold in a frum store it is really kosher.
Rav Belsky then issued his psak sayign that one can only listen to vocal music where it only has men singing with no musical accompaniment and with no digital processing, which is what much of today's acapella music goes through.
As always, never trust a psak seen on the internet and not heard or seen firsthand. research before you change your own hanhaga.
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So we shouldn't trust a psak which has undergone digital processing, even if the psak says that digital processing makes things better?
ReplyDeletedont rely on the fact that you are receiving the result of accurate digital processing after it has gone through a number of people until it got to you. broken telephone with psak halacha does not work.
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