The King of Jewish Music, Mordechai Ben David, walked off a stage in Israel due to a man in the audience smoking a cigarette.
A video submitted to YWN shows MBD singing his hit song “Ana melech malchaei hamilachim”, when he tells a man in Hebrew to put the cigarette out.
He gave the man an ultimatum to put the cigarette out, or he leaves the stage. The man refused, and MBD says “Layla Tov” and walks off.
Sources say that MBD had asked the crowd to stop smoking multiple times, and they refused, prompting the final warning.
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36 Responses
MBD you’re great , and 1000% right.
GO MBD..
Chutzpah Yasgi. Here you have a 70 year old man asking a shnook to have the decency to put out his cigarette and the shnook blatantly ignores him. What have we come to ?
Smoking in public places is forbidden. Where were those who brought MBD?
he probably deosnt like the smell…. whats so major that they put it on the news?
Good for him!
Those pastries look good.
He doesn’t know the Israelis by now
Who crowned MBD the King of Jewish Music?
MBD is saving the lives of Klal Yisroel!!
Kol HaKavod!!
May he be zoche to much Bracha & Hatzlacha!!
Another website said this was at a concert in Argentina not like the title of this article which says it was in Israel
Kol Hakavod!
Fat36: he does know the israelis- he didnt fight or argue he just walked off.
Talmidchochom: who crowned you talmid chochom? You never heard them announcing mbd by a concert as the undisputed king of jewish music? (Nachum segal by the hasc concerts) you really have to ask who crowned him?
Love MBD. What a chutzpah not to put out a cigarette. It’s illegal to smoke indoors and the King of Jewish Music is asking to defence de fumar…
Good for him!
To daas Torah:
Why is this newsworthy?
Because it’s bad enough that people still smoke, knowing that it’s the leading cause of many cancers and other fatal illnesses (not only for the smokers but for people breathing in second hand smoke), but if you’re not gonna have the decency to keep it away from people who don’t want cancer as badly as you do, you deserve to be embarrassed in front of the world.
I start coughing just by smelling cigarettes so this idiot is lucky i wasn’t there.
Kol hakavod.
Kol Hakavod to you, R’ Mordechai!!! May others learn from you as well.
(Some) Israeli’s are unfortunately known for their chutzpah
Every single puff on that cigarette is a new ביטול of the positive Torah מצוה of ונשמרתם מאד לנפשותיכם
MBD is a singer, a chazan, he prefers not to take on SHS (second hand smoke).
Looks like the image in the tent,
Is from a different event,
As a singer he prefers
Not to breath in second hand,
Looks like that is not the case of the band,
He is not used to the smoke,
He’d rather not choke.
Layla Tov he said as he walked off the stage,
Another MBD story, another page.
יישר כח ר’ מאטעל, איהר זענט א ווערדיגער מענטש
What was this event? If people paid to hear him, he is depriving an entire crowd because of a single individual, and if smoking is illegal then security should have removed the guy or at least his cigarette. So I am not rushing to praise MBD without knowing the full situation
If he feels its dangerous to his health to breathe in the second hand smoke then i dont think hes wrong for leaving even though ppl paid to watch him perform. The smoker really deprived the ppl of mbd’s performance not mbd.
147 you continue to believe this nonsense. What about all the גדולי הפוסקים that allow it?? And btw I’m not a smoker never was. I’m just real.
כי הדלקתי סיגריה ניגון חדש
בעקבות אי הנעימות שנוצרה הן לזמר והן למשפחה, מרדכי בן דוד ישיר למשפחה באירוע קטן שבו יהיה שליטה על האורחים
It is important to take a strong stand when someone is showing ‘pride’ in being against a Mitzva d’oraisa, in this case, the Mitzva of Hishamer Lecha U’shmor Nafshecha Meod
I believe this took place at a Bas Mitzva in Errtz yisroel, so he didn’t make any of the participants lose money. As far as the hosts wallet, I’m sure they made an arrangement afterwards.
One of the musicians playing with Mordechai was Mordechai’s friend Avi Piamenta. Avi’s brother, Yosi Piamenta, died of lung cancer at what might have been the height of his life and career. Mordechai took a position against smoking and subjecting people to secondhand smoke. Way to go MBD!
MBD said hes giving back the $ he was paid
The video contains music.
Jeffstein “who crowned you a talmid chochum” Lol. Great retort.
Avi732: thanks
I would do the same great job MBD let all the wise guys learn there lesson