Musical Instruments on Shabbat
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Here is an updated file with a basic narrative surrounding the question of using musical instruments on Shabbat.
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would it be possible to post the file as something more accessible to mac users? i cannot open an office 2007 file...
- Posted by invisible_hand
at January 30, 2008 at 3:04am
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I address some of these issues, in the context of pluralistic communities, in Hilchot Pluralism Part VII.
- Posted by BZ
at January 29, 2008 at 11:06am
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There is a further article on Hirhurim with more sources on this topic at http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2008/01/rock-and-roll-davening.html. What is particularly interesting here is some of the historical context he gives, and in particular the section discussing whether prayer is meant to be joyous (and thus whether using instruments to add joy is even desirable).
- Posted by KR
at January 12, 2008 at 7:15pm
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Another nice blog post at MahRabu addresses this issue - see http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2008/01/myths-and-facts-musical-instruments-on.html
- Posted by KR
at January 3, 2008 at 7:12pm
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An article including a whole bunch of sources on this topic can be found in a post by R' Ari Enkin at http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2007/11/clapping-dancing-and-musical.html
- Posted by KR
at November 15, 2007 at 9:15pm
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The earliest source we have about musical instruments on Shabbat is Psalm 92:
מזמור שיר ליום השבת
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עלי עשור ועלי נבל עלי הגיון בכנור
מזמור שיר ליום השבת
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עלי עשור ועלי נבל עלי הגיון בכנור
- Posted by BZ
at October 7, 2007 at 5:32am
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