“Hundreds of kids gathered around me to hear what I was teaching about Shabbos, at a non-Orthodox event I wasn’t even running, because there was this openness created by the song” R ABBI DONNY SHWARTZ is the Midwest Regional Director of NCSY HOW MUSIC AWAKENS JEWISH HEARTS Jewish music and Jewish singing have always
We asked a selection of kiruv mentors: What’s the music that accompanies the message?
The Baal HaTanya famously said that niggun is the pen of the soul. There is so much that can be conveyed in words, but niggun steps in where they fall short
Both happy music coupled with dance and slow, soul-stirring songs can create a real hisorerus
It was only around 1970 that a different kind of concert became popular — the frum family show
“Some people even tell me that they “hate” chazzanus. They don’t know what they’re missing”
