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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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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.
ReplyDeleteI 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
DeleteWhat is he singing? (Not the words, the song)
ReplyDeleteElokai Neshama is from the morning blessings. Don't know who the specific singer is/version he's listening to.
DeleteANYONE who ever says "the reason why Hashem did this to us is ..." deserves to be shunned immediately.
ReplyDeleteTo 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.
ReplyDeleteWhy was Jewish education taken away from the public schools in Israel. They
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It's actually not at all clear that Buddhism is Avoda Zara. Buddha is revered as a great teacher, not a god.
ReplyDeleteThat'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.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIt 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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