Writersoul: please don’t try to tell me that if a prominent rav took certain tunes and changed the words and sung it it would make the tune any holier. Maybe you really just don’t completely get what I am saying, that tuma is inherent in the music itself, and the words or singer can’t change that. As someone who really feels music and who understands just how deeply music can penetrate, I can honestly say that I know exactly what my sem teacher was talking about, and not just saying some chumra nonsense. And I have to say that the vast majority of modern Jewish music does not connect to me or resonate or make me feel anything. Music that makes me feel something special – now that is what I listen to.
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