[hat tip Anon]
(I refrain from commenting on the permissibility of davening with instruments and assume without probity that עת לעשות לה׳ הפרו תורתך)
Rare footage of Carlebach Davening in Leningrad 1989
[hat tip Anon]
(I refrain from commenting on the permissibility of davening with instruments and assume without probity that עת לעשות לה׳ הפרו תורתך)
pitputim 
I’m so confused. You just said to ban him. Now you post a 8 minute video of him. You still like him. 🙂
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His music should no longer be performed and my band will no longer play Carlebach. He remains a topic of interest or curiosity. I haven’t applied the Charedi female eraser, however.
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I would love to know how many of those who appeared on this clip have been identified and how many have now made aliya. I took a group of students to that synagogue while leading a YUTORAH mission in 1992 (though I had already served in the Israeli army and made aliya but was in Yeshiva University that year) and made a point of telling everyone I met in the synagogue that I was visiting from Israel. The response that I received from each and everyone of them was that they would move to Israel in a heartbeat if they knew they’d be gainfully employed – as long as they’d find “Rabota” they would move to Israel.
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That’s interesting to contrast with a depressing visit I made to the Nozik Shule in Warsaw some 10 years ago, where the Minyan on Shabbos was made up of older Holocaust survivors who had never left Poland. I was to learn that many of them had married gentiles for a range of reasons and I’m certainly not here to judge them. I spoke to one fellow who told me his sisters and family were all in Israel and when they sent him money for a ticket for a Simcha he loved it. I think that for these people, Israel was just too hard given that their wives were not Jewish and neither were any kids. I say this because it would appear that Russians were less concerned about this. It’s all understandable.
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