This whole meshugaas about not usoing a nigun from Reb Shlomo, Z’TL, or Lipa or from any yid whose hashkafah some may object to can be taken to extremes. As someone else noted, the majority of nigunim have no known source and could have been composed by big some big time apikores. The shtender in the beis medrash might have been assembled in Germany from European Beechwood (as many are). If a nigun helps a yid to feel closer to the Ebeshter, thats all that counts. We don’t adopt the ethics or values of the source of music we enjory hearing or books we enjoy reading. They stand independently for the emotions and feelings they bring out in each of us as individuls.
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