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Post by artraveler on Mar 29, 2020 19:28:42 GMT -8
Pretty soon your be singing in Hebrew, careful you might chip a tooth. I'm pleased you enjoyed. I find it interesting that the two most unique forms of truly American music have their roots in tribal motifs, Scots/Irish and Black. And in America we find Jews deeply involved in both jazz and bluegrass. Myself, I never got past Floyd Cramer piano lesson #2. Harry Goldman, a writer from the 60s once said that the reason Jews learned string instruments was because it was difficult to run from nazis with a piano. uncpress.org/book/9781469645643/carolina-israelite/
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 29, 2020 21:15:18 GMT -8
Don't get me started on Jewish Christmas/Jesus jokes.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 30, 2020 7:53:18 GMT -8
My opinions change upon subsequent listenings, but I still think the strongest song of the two albums is this interesting mix of hillbilly and Jew in “River Song.” I’ll be on the lookout for their third album.
“Modeh Ani” is a nice piece of work as well. I do have a hard time with the generally liberal sentiment of “We are all one.” But I do like “Chasing the Sunset” in which that is a prominent theme. I don’t really want to be “One.” Just a bit of social distancing, please. For better (often for worse) there is a “black experience” and a “Jewish experience.” These smaller ethnic groups with substance and keen experience have something to say. What does the Meghan Markle crowd have to say? That is what makes much of popular culture such a walking parody of itself. Those of Greta Thunberg self-importance cannot produce art. They can only screech. Rimshot. I would love to learn Hebrew. I don’t see that happening though. It’s a lot of work to learn a language and I’ve nowhere near mastered this one. But I like it when they start singing it. It sounds like nothing else.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 30, 2020 8:06:11 GMT -8
I was listening to a little more of the album, “Havayah,” by Nava Tehlia. There’s potential there. The first couple songs are okay. And then you hit the third one, Ya’aloz Sadai, and it makes me want to put my head into a blender. But track 5, Yedid Nefesh, is pretty good. So maybe this is an album you need to listen to once, note the better songs, and make a playlist. #6 isn't bad either, although the songs are obviously not as upbeat as those by Nefesh Mountain.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 30, 2020 12:52:44 GMT -8
I just listened to Dancing in the Glory - a Jounery Into Kabbalat Shabbat by Nava Tehila. I thought it was an improvement on their other album that I had mentioned. One reviewer says these are "new Jewish fold music classics." I have no idea if that means they are covering some traditional tunes or have created some of their own — or both.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 31, 2020 13:14:19 GMT -8
Let me go right to Cards, Letters, and Emails because I’ve been getting a lot of questions on this group, Nefesh Mountain:
Brad, is it “Nefresh” or “Nefesh”?
Answer: Whatever makes it through your word processor’s auto-correction.
I really like track six from the album, Nefesh Mountain. But isn’t the lyric “Been all around the world, I’m a singing Jewish girl” an instance of girl-power?
Answer: Yes. But she has a special exemption. Not many exemptions are given out.
Brad, I’m really struggling with the lack of f-bombs, sexual content, and hatred toward whites and America in these songs. What can I do? It just seems wrong even though I can’t keep my foot from tapping.
Answer: Go with the flow when the current isn’t excrement. That’s what my daddy always taught me. Or should have taught me.
A battery will run down if not recharged. Rap music (and arguably 90% of pop culture) actually drains down the battery. It’s like a drug: a momentary high (perhaps) but ultimately unsatisfying, on balance. You’re left more wanting than when you started. However, when you listen to something that actually restores the spirit, that can produce confusion, as you are experiencing now. We call this “The Devil’s Music Withdrawal Syndrome,” or “DMWS” for short.
In short, your momma and daddy were right, even if sometimes for the wrong reasons. Much of that 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s music was subversive. It was meant to be subversive. When the crack form of music becomes normal, then healthy food will seem a bit strange at first.
I don’t believe in all this G-d bullshit. What has god ever done for . . . — crack!!! [lightning bolt from the sky]
Only evil (or very stupid) people could come to a Jewish thread and give the lame “What has god ever done for me?” shtick. There’s a reason so many Jews have abandoned G-d and instead worship the Golden Calf of Leftism (just as so many destructive atheists such as you have). God and Jews have had a very strained relationship. [See: Holocaust].
You see, life is composed of a Holy Trinity (which may be a strange thought regarding a Jewish group): Suffering, Exaltation, and the Mundane. These three things, when understood, integrated, and accepted, are Life and lead to Wisdom. With Wisdom leads to Compassion (not the fake, virtue-signaling kind).
Suffering comes easily enough. The Mundane is 90% of life and many of our problems are attempts to escape it. We thus try various artificial means of Exaltation.
God is the source of Exaltation so anything less is a substitute that will likely have bad side-effects. Listening to music that is based in gratitude (not victimhood) is rooted in something deep and real. The better question to ask is, “What has bitter atheism every done for anybody?”
I’ll take a pass. I effin hate religious music.
Answer: So do I. I dislike the music they play at funerals as well. I don’t know why good and meaningful music has to be so angel-choir, funereal, and boring. Well, this group shows it doesn’t have to be. I think the mandolins and violins are the instruments of angels, not the harp (although there are some rather sharp harp players out there). For those interested, the devil’s instruments are, according to Ezekiel 28:13, “timbrels and pipes.” I believe that Scottish bands are exempted from that.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 31, 2020 20:44:04 GMT -8
Brad, Your a Mench
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 1, 2020 16:46:22 GMT -8
Dennis Prager is doing some kind of online Seder this Friday. I was just talking to Pat (you all know Pat from the old site) and he says he’s been to a couple locally and thought they were great. It should prove interesting and enriching to see what Brother Prager does. I don’t see anything mentioned on his website yet as to time and place.
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Post by artraveler on Apr 1, 2020 18:55:36 GMT -8
I had not heard of that. I will look it up as we are not going out. No, not because it's verboten but my stepdaughter has just had a defibulater and my wife wants to be close.
A very Jewish joke.
A single Hasidic Jew is shipwrecked on a desert island for years. He is rescued and the captain of the rescue ship is shown around the island. He is shown a school, a store, hotel, and two synagogues. The captain asks the Jew, "I can understand everything but the two synagogues. You are the only Jew on the island" The Jew replies, oh I never go to that other one.
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Post by timothylane on Apr 1, 2020 19:06:39 GMT -8
I think Asimov had a version of that joke in his Treasury of Humor. I don't think the Jew was specifically a Hasid, but at any rate he had 2 synagogues because one was the synagogue he wouldn't consider going to.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 2, 2020 7:24:39 GMT -8
LOL. I think that translates well. Best of luck to the stepdaughter.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 2, 2020 9:01:07 GMT -8
I’ve done it to myself. Now I’ve got that stupid song rattling around in my head. It’s done so all morning. And by “stupid,” of course I mean the complimentary version of “stupid.”
“Been all around the world, I’m a signing Jewish girl.”
Please, G-d, let me off!
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 2, 2020 10:07:22 GMT -8
There’s a nice lyrics from the track, “On and On (L’dor Vador)” from Beneath the Open Sky: “Time may pass but it’s never gone.”
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Post by artraveler on Apr 2, 2020 10:09:02 GMT -8
Don't fret, you will never be a JAP, Jewish American Princess.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 2, 2020 10:22:30 GMT -8
That chick has a sort of Carly Simonishnessnous about her. But I like her better. Yes, I know she’s married but thanks for the warning before I get carried away.
Seeing those videos, these guys aren’t hacks. (I’m sure there’s a proper Yiddish or Hebrew word for that which I wouldn’t know.) That guy can sure play the fiddle and that other guy can sure play the banjo. And that guy on the base is no bupkes either.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 2, 2020 11:02:41 GMT -8
Dennis will be having a Passover Seder at 6 PM Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 8. It’s free but you have to email him first. I’m assuming this “ Email Dennis” online form will work in that regard. I simply put “Passover Seder” in the subject line and filled out the rest of it. I assume I will receive a link to follow for the Passover Seder when he goes live with that on Wednesday.
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Post by kungfuzu on Apr 2, 2020 11:06:06 GMT -8
I'll have to go down to the local liquor store and pick up a bottle of Slivovitz. Cheers
Perhaps "L'chaim" would be more appropriate. It has been nigh on fifty years since I have been to a Seder, and I cannot remember the toast. I do recall sitting around the table as the father read out of a Seder (?) book and taking a sip at the end of certain phrases.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 2, 2020 11:23:44 GMT -8
That sounds like a great idea.
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Post by artraveler on Apr 2, 2020 12:51:00 GMT -8
For 3,000 years we have managed to get through passover with only four questions. I have more questions then that before I get out of bed.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 3, 2020 8:04:33 GMT -8
Are there four standard questions?
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