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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Intro to Hasidut
Modzitz and Music
- Rebbe Shemuel Eliyahu Taub of Modzitz
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• Wrote approx. 1000 nigunim
- unclear how many were/are really sung, but there all in Modzitz’s archive
- Connection between Mahshava and Dibur
• The idea of the KOL
- Different paths in Avodat Hashem
• Path of Torah: Some people, and groups, automatically put a strong emphasis on
limed torah. They still daven and the like, b/c that’s commanded by the torah, but
their whole emphasis is on Limud Torah.
• Path of Tefillah: His whole connection to ‘" is through Tefilla. He prays with lots of
Kavanah. He also learns torah, but it is not emphasized.
• Path of Acts of Kindness
• Path of Music and Song: Its a path of praise of God, specifically through music andsong.
- Modzitz essentially saw song and praise as its own form of Avodat HAshem.
- “Others say the World of song is next to the World of Teshuva. I say the World of
Song IS the World of Teshuva. Teshuva is achieved through song.”
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