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In honor of Rabbi Michael Avraham Shlita
What does the Rabbi think about this song?
A song due to the war.
In our community on Simchat Torah we danced, ate and drank, and did not let anything disturb us, even when the messenger came for our brothers, telling us that hundreds of our people were being murdered, our rabbi, the man of the clusters, was wonderfully devoted to our creator, and when the messenger came to warn our rabbi, he ignored us as if it were not our business, as if they were not protecting us, suddenly the leader of the congregation shouted in our congregation, Why is this a matter for us, after all, our children are among us, and we have a Tzol’t, and we rejoiced, how good our lot is.
PS “The leader of the audience” was a rich and stupid man. And when he said this to several people, no one protested and some laughed and agreed 😫😫😫
Regards
A.I.A.
Is there any question here? And are we lacking fools or wicked (or both)?
What does the rabbi think of the song as a poem?
It's hard to ignore the stupid/evil content, and it's a purely artistic opinion. But I think it's also artistically appropriate for a kindergarten child's essay.
thanks
I think it's a beautiful song, what's the problem?
I'm not sure I understand. Is this a poem that describes the situation critically or does it describe the alienated position itself? It's very difficult for me to separate the outrageous content from the poem. As a critique, it seems more plausible, although in my opinion there's really no poem here, but rather an argument in (too simplistic) rhymes. The description is also too direct. When writing a poem, the reference shouldn't be a description but rather a paraphrase, something more sophisticated. See the series of columns on What is Poetry?
Here in Israel, for some reason, all the poems are written in a broken form, meaning without any connection between sentences [it's not always profound, it's often just nonsense].
The poem rhymes was written as a critique.
As a man who was in the audience and then writes about it
But I completely understand the confusion. 😳
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