Religious experience

Where did you write something detailed and reasoned about this?

I have written about emotions and their perception more than once. For example, in column 22 and the talkbacks that followed, and in the reflections of the places I cited there (including my article on emotions in Halacha).
And also in column 140 on existentialism and column 142 on Brisk existentialism.
But now I see that it is important to discuss the relationship between emotion and experience. Maybe I will write something.

This sounds really strange to me, after all, the Torah is full of commandments about emotion. “You shall love the Lord”, “You shall love your neighbor”, “And cleave to Him” and so on.

And was it for nothing that they were anointed with oil? After all, I referred to the sources in which I deal with this very question. See there.

Congratulations. I would really love for you to write about the "relationship between emotion and experience." I often hear people separate them and don't understand why. For me, an experience is a meaningful emotion toward an object in the world.

Rabbi, I also ask that you write about this. Very important, in my opinion.

Isn't it important to honor the Sabbath with service and singing?

First, in order for the ‘chalot’ there to be ‘pleasure’, there must be zmirot, like the cholent and the gefilte-fish. This is a purely halakhic necessity. And the mehadrin sing the zmirot to the tunes of the songs of the Land of Israel and jazz that are Maran…s favorite…

And second, while the household members are singing – the householder can read Kant and the books ‘Mercaz Shalem’ and complete what he missed in the quick recitation of the Shatz 🙂

With blessings, Shimshony Litvak

Regarding Shabbat service and singing, it is at most an action aimed at evoking emotion (and even that is not clear). The value is in the action and not in the result, as I wrote in the above columns. And this very matter also has no clear source. And yes, the value is in enjoying Shabbat and not because of the mere fact that I have an experience or emotion.

And it must be said that there is a special meaning to jazz tunes and Yid songs, since Shabbat is a "remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt", and therefore jazz tunes sung by the Negroes who were enslaved in America are beautiful for Shabbat, and on the other hand, Yid songs express the hopes of the pioneers of the land and its blossoms after a long exile.

With greetings, Sh”c

Some successful dressings of Yid songs on the Zmirut:
‘What is the friendship of your rest’ in the tune of ‘Who remembers and who knows’; ‘Every seventh temple’ In the tune ‘You planted melodies in me, my mother and father’; for I will keep the Sabbath’ In the tune ‘Yes, this is the garden of sycamores’, ‘Rest and joy, a light for the Jews’ In the tune ‘There are the Golan Heights’. And of course the famous dressing of ‘This day is for Israel’ In the tune of ‘If you want me to show you the city in gray’, and the less famous, in the tune of ‘I will make the remnant of the noise like a vine’.