Reply To: Will Rav Amnon Yitzchak manage to change the music industry?

i started this post because i listen to music all the time and it puts me in a good mood. i heard the rav was against all music and all singers and was very upset but i went to his website to hear him out anyway. well i am glad i did because he taught this music fan a thing or two.(no i am not going to break my cd’s but now i do understand where he is coming from)

he is saying that after the destruction of the beis hamikdash its not poshut to listen to music ‘stam azoi’. i was thinking about his words and while i cant live without music, i do see that our music resembles goyishe music, it makes us move like goyim, and it keeps us busy- so many times i find myself listening to music when i can just as easily pop in a torah cd. dovid hamelech says ‘lulei torosecha shashuai’ i as a yeshiva person, should be ‘meshasheaya’ myself with torah in my earphones more than music, not the other way around!

true its my bechirah what to listen to when , but the whole industry has evolved in a way that it is overpowering and i feel that maybe some kids today would have a better chance at learning to get close to the eibishter through learning, as opposed to a nigun. because in the end of the day, the two ways to get close to hashem cannot be compared.

there is a video on the tube that someone took of rav elyashiv shlita learning alone in his house. see it . then tell me if rav yitschak is not right by trying to tame the music scene. we have the real thing so why would we allow the jewish music industry to teach our children to worship singers and music like goyim?