Living Between A Matisyahu and An Uncle Moishy

By Chaim Rubin (Life-of-Rubin) In the last couple weeks I have received a lot of emails regarding the Matisyahu issue. Three e-mails have stood out for me and I wish to just lightly touch on them right now. All three were written by Baalei Teshuvah and people now raising their own children in a frum [...]

Ending a Musical Week with Rabbi Simenowitz’s Guitars

Some Beautiful Beyond BT Music

There have been a few posts here on the blog about music, more specifically about the music many of us grew up with. Take it or leave it? OK for me but not for my kids. Can’t get it out of my head, etc. My brother Chaim is a musician. Before he became observant he [...]

Am I Getting Into The Groove?

This essay is not going to discuss the kabbalistic outlook on secular music or its effects. I leave that for others greater than I. I realize that the topic of listening to secular music is a very touchy topic with people. It can get heated. I am just going to share my own thoughts regarding [...]

Expressing the Music in my Heart

A long, long time ago I was forced to go to Sunday school and Friday night services in order to learn for my bat mitzvah, just like the majority of Reform youth. I always resented it then, and even now I wonder if anything valuable came out of those 7 years of Jewish education. I [...]

The Day the Music Revived

I’ve gone to a few non-observant family simchas recently and I’ve noticed that the great majority of the music played comes from before the 90s. My wife’s cousin, a drummer by night, told me at one of these affairs that the difficulty of making a living made many potential musicians and children of musicians avoid [...]

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• Am I Getting Into The Groove?
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• Living Between A Matisyahu and An Uncle Moishy
• Some Beautiful Beyond BT Music
• The Day the Music Revived
• Ending a Musical Week with Rabbi Simenowitz's Guitars