U/D VIDEO: Rabbi Amonon Yitzchok of Israel took a harsh stand on Jewish concert performers recently. ”They shake like snakes”, “They spin around, they look up to Shomayim as if to say snap a picture”, “They also have smoke, as if they came out of Gehenom”, are some of the harsh phrases he used during the public speech – screaming against the singers who he says are transgressing ‘many Aveiros’.
“This is Holelus”, he says. “Al Tifnu El Ha’ellulim”. “Uvechukosayhem Lo Say’laychu”. “Moshav Leitzim”.
Video is in Hebrew.
Well said! It’s about time someone says it the way it is!
I always wonder why the rabanim pick this fight of concerts or no concerts. Does Rav amnam Yitzchok realize the drugs and other things which can’t be mentioned on any web page let alone a frum web page, and realize what is going on.
I don’t think concerts cause klal yisroel to go off the derech. I am not saying concerts are right or wrong. I just don’t understand why they pick this fight and not scream about the real important and worse things effecting the klal. Does anyone know the telephone number of Rav Amnom Yitzchok?
I like him he says it like it is , he don’t care if u have money or how frum to think u are
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I was wondering whether you would be ready for someone to look at you and “say it the way it is”….
Why give this attention? I’m not sure.
wats wrong if we wanna chill out alitte have a good time if we have concert in a clean way it should be good
can someone write in english 1 good complaint that he said
The Rabbis video seems more sophisticated and more of showbiz than the singers! More lights, more shtick etc. Almost comical.
What’s wrong with some plain old kosher entertainment? What’s better? That we lock up our kids and then wait till they explode and end up in places that I would never want to mention……… Unfortunately I have seen this first hand to many times……
Some nice Shwekey footage there…they should use the video as a concert promotion!!! 🙂
How dare some of you question Harav Amnon.
I am sure he asks Daas Toirah everything he does. He is a tremendous Talmid Chacham. In this weeks Parsha we read how one has to listen to the Talmid chacham even if he thinks he is wrong.
To #10, Kosher entertainment means learning an extra blatt. I feel bad for you, if you have to go to a concert for entertainment.I tell my son to learn an extra blatt when he’s bored.
to 7, chill out!!!?? Terrible hashkafa, I am surprised people even use this word in Elul.
Firstly, Rav Amnon would NOT want you to be on the internet! Trust me, it could do you a lot more harm than a concert! Secondly, it is wonderful that you tell your son to learn another blatt when he needs entertainment. Here’s my question though. Does he listen? Or does he now hide and find himself some OTHER entertainment because he thinks his father is from another planet and does not understand him? Unfortunately, that’s a lot more likely these days. Hatzlacha.
I for one wouldnt consider myself on par to agree or disagree with harav amnon yitzchak shlita who has the backing of many gedolim and knows a velt of torah, but I would just ask in a respectfull way to harav amnon yitzchak shlita, why is shweki who has his das torah so terribly wrong, arent we encouraged to be loyal to our ruv for every shaila that comes up?
And secondly I would ask him why is it ok to embarrass people in the audience and then use this to increase your rating? Doesnt the torah teach us to be noiheig bidarchei noiam and doesnt this also encourage hatred to the frum? And i would also like to ask him why its permitted to predict that wars and tragedies are gonna happen when firstly it never happens (its again an issue of rating) and secondly the torah says in this weeks parsha tumim tihiye im Hashem eloikechu? And regarding the concerts well it again appears to be cynical the way he portrays the gehenim bit and all the rest of the cynicisim he’s typicaly known for? And regarding kosher entertainent well that too is a legitimate point, the amount of simcha the singers give alot of people who are very often suffering depression, cannot be macht avek.
These are my queries i would post to him am no I am not on his level of torah knowledge and yiras shumayim, in fact nowhere near it, but I would humbly like to grasp an understanding on these queries.
While Rav Yitzchak’s comments are certainly without question, I feel that whoever assembled the video was wrong to single out Yaakov Shwekey. Other so-called entertainers are much more wild. Does somebody out there have it in for him?
It’s very obvious from the comments that most of you don’t listen to Harav Yitzchak’s daily/weekly shiurim , but before you dare to comment on a gadol of that magnitude at least have the decency to first go to his website and listen to one of the recent speeches on this topic try to get an understanding of why he’s ranting against “jewish concert”and what it did to our generation, and if you still think you have the right to question him then go ahead!!! comment freely
When i saw this i was disgusted- not by what the rav said rather the producers who picked on Shwekey- there were tonz of American singers that made concerts in Israel over the last 5 years. Like #14 said i think someone has it out for him.
Hes a Sephardic Gadol, their more open by nature!
No 14 and 16- The reason Shwekey was singled out was because of the concert in Caesarea was mixed seating and was promised to Israeli Gedolim it wont be mixed.
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This video was made before the concert. They do not even want concerts that are separate.
Thank you to my Rebbi Rav Amnon Yotzchak for keeping me frum.
When I was in Israel, I was going off the derech, and I listened to a few of his tapes, and it turned me around.
He says the truth. He’s not scared of anyone. He explains Torah-true Judaism without the Lomdus, the Chasidus, etc. Just plain what G-d wants from us.
I grew up my whole life in a brainwashed society,, where the ikkur was the Chitzoniyus, the kovod, the dancing, the tish, the lomdus, the levush, eyc. I was very turned off because I didn’t feel it was real.
When I heard Rav Amnon’s tapes, my eyes were opened to true, plain, unadulterated Yiddishkeit!
Thank you, my Rebbi Muvhak!
Please listen to the whole speech on rav amnon yitzchoks website shofar, he brings reads there from a kol korah against mixed concerts signed by Rav Wosner, Rav Elyashiv, Rav Ovadya Yosef, The Gerrer Rebbe- just to name a few!
At the speech he does not show these videos from shwekey, someone must have put it in! and he speaks about other singers also not just shwekey and he explains. so please dont just listen to a few words and jump.
It has nothing to do with being Sefardi – its about being jewish!!
There is also a Kol Korah called the Torah that prohibits lashon Harah, Rechilus, motzei shem ra and sheker. Where’s the uproar to uphold that?
as sefardi as i am, i am surprised at Rav Amnon
#23 is so correct, did you catch the last thing he said to the chassidishe man WOWOWOWOWOW very surprising I’m just a little more confused now that’s allll
wow i like the graphics used on the video, i can also use my talent and do such a thing please cmon
to #23 The Rabbi in one of the recent speeches said, that these “frum superstars”that sing at concerts are machtee et harabim and hence it’s mutar to say there names publicly .and as others have commented please listen to af ew full speeces from his website (shofar.net)before commenting
I Know Yaakov shwekey personally and he is probably one of the most frum singers. #19, shwekey does not arrainge the seating his concerts
this is an issue that is of utmost importance and i would lie to see more from tls on this tragic problem. we are running after these ‘stars’ and they are ruining us and our children with very close to goyish music. i would even say its goyishe music with hebrew words. the rav is fighting the war that the gedoilim hav been shouting about for decades but he has the power and the exposure to win. he has the signature of VERY MAJOR GODOL byisroel and this is not his war its the dvar hashem.