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amother
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 Mon, Jun 04 2007, 4:56 am
Would you listen to meditative music (aka music marketed as meditative music) made by non-jews? Is it considered fine halachicly? Does it make a difference to you if it has words or not?
From my gut instinct, I would not listen to meditative music that has words in english, as meditation music is often used by other religions, such as budhism... and the words that they are saying may very well be some religious mantra that is considered avoda zara. However, I'm not so sure how I feel about music that has words but in another language- its not affecting me, I'm not understanding the words they're even saying, so to me it doesn't feel like it would have a spiritual effect... But I can see it potentially being halachically wrong.
But I have absolutely no problem with wordless/instrumental meditative music.
What about you? Did any of you have this question and ask a rav what he thought? What does your neshama tell you?
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bashinda
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Mon, Jun 04 2007, 10:07 am
I can't remember where I learned this but I learned that when you listen to music it's very powrful and you connect to the person who wrote the music which means both the lyrics and the music. So my worry would be what was the composer thinking when he or she composed the music. (anyone know of a source here?)
I find chassidic music (not the high energy niggunim but the more reflective ones) good here. Or you could always get sound tapes or a sound machine. I find hearing rain or the sound of the sea to be very calming.
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Ruchel
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Mon, Jun 04 2007, 10:09 pm
I learned non Jewish music is not a problem as long as
- no dirty lyrics
- no idolatry lyrics unless you don't understand the language
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