[HANASHIR:11650] Re: Another opinion about sharing our music

[Judy Hudspeth <jwshudspeth...>]

Hi Laura ~

No offense intended, but have you HEARD "God Is In?"  I wouldn't exactly 
call it sacred music.

I understand your concern, and sense your anxiety, but, coming from an 
assimilated/interfaith background, I find my roots are stronger and my 
commitment greater for having experienced the fullness of my life and having 
the benchmark of Judaism upon which to draw.

Thanks for your thoughts, though.

Judy Hudspeth




>From: LSOLKOWITZ (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:11644] Another opinion about sharing our music
>Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:01:17 EDT
>
>WARNING:  This posting may be upsetting to some readers.
>
>This has been bothering me since last night, when I read the entry about
>someone travelling home from Hava Nashira and meeting up with a family in a
>restraunt and sharing music & encouraging them to buy it and spread it to
>their friends.
>
>Living here, in the bible belt where I do,  I can tell you from experiences
>that anything shared may be used against us.  (If you'd like to get really
>frightened, search Google or Yahoo under "Messianic Jew" and check out some
>of those sites.)
>
>What do I mean?  Well, their GOAL is to convert us into them.  So, they can
>use our own familiar words and sounds to lure our own "lost souls" to their
>ideals.  This is nothing new.  Mainstream churches have been singing our
>hymns like Yigdal, Adon Olam and Ein K-lo-keynu (in English) for years.  
>The
>Christain pop chart includes at least one song called "El Shaddai".
>
>But what happens when the lost young man or woman  stumbles into a 
>Fellowship
>where they sing tunes that sound vaguely familiar with his or her Jewish
>past?  And they convince him or her that he can be BOTH Jewish and 
>Christian,
>after all, we have the same music...how different can we be??  Or they 
>catch
>the tune on a "pop" Christian station and stay to listen more?  Or an
>intermarried couple decides that they can have it both ways?
>
>Our music is one of our greatest treasures and a legacy we hand down to our
>children with our rituals, prayers and core JEWISH values.  Personally, I
>abhor the thought of a bunch of goyim desecrating our sacred songs.  Our
>songs are sacred when the melodies, words and kavanah come from a pure 
>Jewish
>neshama (soul).  You may say they respect it, but I contend that they will
>still be using it for their purposes to get our children on their path.
>(Just as we have adopted some gospel works for our own purposes).
>
>Assimilation is tearing away at the fabric of our people,  I do not feel 
>that
>we should be giving the world the scissors to do it with by freely sharing
>our sacred music.
>
>Laura Solkowitz RN
>Pre-school - 6th Grade Performance Music - Hillel Day School Raleigh, NC
>Patient Educator, WakeMed Rehab Raleigh, NC
>
>lsolkowitz (at) aol(dot)com
>
>"He who has saved one life, it as if he has saved an entire world" - Talmud




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