Where did you write something detailed and reasoned about this?

I’ve written more than once about emotions and their significance. For example, in Column 22 and the talkbacks following it, and in the references I brought there (including my article on emotions in Jewish law).
Also in Column 140 on existentialism and in Column 142 on Brisker existentialism.
But now I see that it’s important to discuss the relation between emotion and experience. Maybe I’ll write something.

That sounds really puzzling to me, since the Torah is full of commandments concerning emotion: “And you shall love the Lord,” “And you shall love your neighbor,” “And cling to Him,” and the like.

Did they embalm the embalmers for nothing? I already referred you to the sources where I deal with exactly this question. Look there.

More power to you. I’d really be happy if you wrote about “the relation between emotion and experience.” I hear people separating the two very often and I don’t understand why. As far as I’m concerned, experience is emotion that has meaning in relation to an object in the world.

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

Is there no value in honoring the Sabbath with songs and hymns?

First, in order for the designation of “delight” to take effect, there have to be Sabbath songs, just like cholent and gefilte fish. It’s a purely halakhic need. And those who are extra punctilious sing the Sabbath songs to the tunes of Land of Israel songs and jazz, which our master is fond of…

And second, while the family members are singing, the head of the household can study Kant and the books of Shalem Center and make up what he didn’t manage during the fast repetition of the cantor’s repetition of the Amidah 🙂

With blessings, his Litvak attendant

As for songs and hymns on the Sabbath, this is at most an act whose purpose is to arouse emotion (and even that is not clear). The value lies in the act, not in the result, as I wrote in the above columns. And even this whole matter has no clear source. Also, the value is to make the Sabbath delightful, not because of the mere fact that I have an experience or an emotion.

And one could say that there is special significance to jazz melodies and Land of Israel songs, for the Sabbath is “a memorial to the Exodus from Egypt”; therefore jazz melodies, which were sung by the Blacks who were enslaved in America, are fitting for the Sabbath, while on the other hand there are the Land of Israel songs that express the hopes of the pioneers of the land and those who made it bloom after a long exile.

With blessings, the prayer leader

A few successful pairings of Land of Israel songs with the Sabbath hymns:
“How Beloved Is Your Rest” to the tune of “Who Remembers and Who Knows”; “Whoever Sanctifies the Seventh Day” to the tune of “You Planted Melodies in Me, My Mother and Father”; “For I Shall Keep the Sabbath” to the tune of “Yes, This Is the Garden of the Sycamores”; “Rest and Joy, Light for the Jews” to the tune of “There Are the Mountains of the Golan.” And of course the famous pairing of “This Day Is for Israel” to the tune of “If You Want Me to Show You the City in Gray,” and the less famous one, to the tune of “I Shall Glean Like a Vine the Murmur’s Remnant.”