Let's start with full disclosure: The writer of the lines is very fond of music, both Hasidic and Mizrahi, and even a little 'poetic'. He has knowledge of nigun, and at occasional weddings you will find him more near the orchestra than near the plate...
And so, in moments of pause or just waiting, I don't get bored, but pull out the player and just listen.
There are situations in life where music is really needed, such as when preparing for Shabbat, a 'revival broadcast', and also when preparing for...a weekday, I mean Saturday, when the house is 'upside down' from the 'rest' of the whole family, and the mood of Saturday (you know, right?) settles in our consciousness, we need some 'tune' - from above - to restore the soul...
Recently, on Saturday, I attended a music competition aired on one of the Haredi media outlets.
It works something like this: Singers, or rather people interested in becoming singers, come before a panel of judges consisting of top figures in Jewish music of all kinds, and perform their wares in front of them - and each judge determines a number of points for the singer, in preparation for the grand finale.
That's big.
And in one of the episodes, one of the candidates sang as usual in front of the judges, and one of them, who, it was said, 'didn't like' it, expressed his opinion that caught my attention.
He said approximately the following:
'"You chose a song that is bigger than you, you tried to step into the shoes of the original singer, and it's very difficult... I don't sing every song either. There are songs that I know are 'bigger than me,' you also have to know which song to choose, and that's why I'm forced to give you a low score.".
boom!
I turned off the radio.
What crushing sentences!
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You are entering some stage in life, studies, a mortgage, a job, etc.
You don't have to 'bomb' and put on a 'show' (translated from English) that doesn't suit you at all. You need to be yourself, know your abilities and grow from there. Don't worry, you'll have clients there too, they need you too, at your level.
If you try to be someone else, you will be doubly disappointed, you will not be 'him', and you will have given up on yourself.
I once read that it's similar to a train trying to get on tracks that aren't its own, and while it's still moving! Oh my.
It happens more than once that we have big eyes to 'be like...' or 'succeed like...'. There is nothing wrong with aspirations, God forbid, anything positive and kosher - as long as it is adjusted according to the Torah, of course, but we must remember that everyone has their own path.
No two people are the same, neither in the past nor in the present nor in the future (and so according to the sources), and therefore one must strive, but in the right way.
Right aspirations, built on solid foundations, can lead a person to reach, even from a slight level, great heights.
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I heard a true story from a friend who witnessed the event, about a man who heard that anyone who fasts for forty days will be granted the privilege of meeting the prophet Elijah.
Is it right for you? Wait a minute. Listen before you try.
This young man longed to meet the prophet Elijah, even just once, and decided that he would 'go for it to the end.'.
On the fortieth day, the intended one arrived at the synagogue in Siludin. The sun was already setting, and Elijah the prophet himself was coming to meet him. But then something went wrong.... Something happened between him and one of the worshippers there in the chairs (or 'between the chairs', whatever you like), and the 'angry' one arrived, and the 'silent one', who had almost forgotten how to speak, 'let out' his anger and wrath on his companion.
Forty days of suppressed speech came out like steam in ten minutes, to the dismay of all those around them... and in relation to the prophet Elijah...
Let's finally land on the ground.
If the singer in question had taken a song whose 'tones', 'scales', 'octave', 'notes', and 'rhythm' (did I miss something?) were suitable for him, it is possible, perhaps even almost certain, that he would have produced a beautiful work, and perhaps he would have moved on according to his strength and talents.
so what you Singing?
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