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Oct 16, 2023

Yehuda Becher singing, not worshipping idols

I choked up a bit when I saw this video...




this is a video of Yehuda Becher, one of the many murdered by Hamas at the music festival in Reim. In this clip Becher is seen on his way down to the festival, singing a song of dveikus to Hashem, Elokai Neshama.

Why did I choke up a bit?

Just the other day I heard in a shiur from an American rosh yeshiva that the reason why Hashem did this to us is [possibly? I dont recall if he said it definitively or only as a suggestion] because there was a party there where they were worshipping avoda zara. Some of our people got so far from Hashem, they were worshipping avoda zara. This "potch from Hashem", so to speak, was to straighten us out, and the result was a tremendous awakening with soldiers requesting tzitzis, not frum people keeping shabbos or lighting candles, people davening and saying tehillim, etc 

Yes, I read there was a Buddha statue at the party. Does that mean they were worshipping avoda zara? Is dancing at a party idol worship because they decorated with a Buddha? I dont know. Yehuda Becher clearly was not, whether he was frum or not, he had his connection with God. 


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12 comments:

  1. It's too soon to say so but consider where Israeli society was the day before the attacks - it was more dangerous to wear a kippah in Tel Aviv than in New York.

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    1. I disagree. it was not dangerous to wear a kipa in Tel Aviv. I have been to Tel Aviv many times and never felt threatened or danger. There are 500 shuls in tel Aviv that are active. There are plenty of religious people living in Tel Aviv. It became dangerous to try to do public religious events separating women because of the fights over religion and state that developed form the fights over judicial reform

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  2. What is he singing? (Not the words, the song)

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    1. Elokai Neshama is from the morning blessings. Don't know who the specific singer is/version he's listening to.

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    2. Seems Yehuda a”h composed the music

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    3. No, he didn't. It is by עלמא

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  3. ANYONE who ever says "the reason why Hashem did this to us is ..." deserves to be shunned immediately.

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  4. To simply explain the situation that exists in Israel (& elsewhere in the world) is because the youth of today have been denied any education of even the minutest knowledge of Judaism.
    Why was Jewish education taken away from the public schools in Israel. They
    who speak the holy tongue but yet do not know the Shma Yisrael or even heard of it. These
    poor neglected and that's what the youth of today are, neglected, are being denied their
    rights to know who they are, from whom they come and why they even live in Eretz Yisrael.
    They do not get the privilege of knowing they are Jews first and foremost from their parents,
    nor from their schools and this is now an epidemic! Israel is literally G-D's country, His Abode
    in the lower worlds. That his people have so deserted Him in so many ways is beyond
    belief, but not giving even a semblance of knowledge of their reason for existing is beyond
    sinful. Let's pray that this was an awakening of horrific proportions where there will
    a lot of tshuva. Their trying to love our enemies but yet hate our G-D fearing people has
    brought about this evil. These children were the victims, r'l.
    Hashem Yikom damam of the victims of this terror!

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  5. It's actually not at all clear that Buddhism is Avoda Zara. Buddha is revered as a great teacher, not a god.

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    1. That's true. But I once spent a week at the home of the hippy uncle and aunt of a friend of mine. There was a tiny Buddha on a shelf in my room; whenever I davened, I tucked it behind something else where I couldn't see it. Just to be safe.

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  6. I literally can not stop crying from this. So many of these kids have such a pure connection to hash-m and are so so misunderstood.

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  7. It doesn't matter what Buddahism is considered; but it is regarded as a religion (a belief system) and goes against Torah law because it is considered avodah zorah, a foreign worship.

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