Jerusalem – King of jewish music Mordechai ben David in an interview with Israeli radio personal Mencham Toker, unbared his heart and complained at the slander said about his performances to rabbonim.
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Tucker: I want to start the program with fire. You lost a lot of money because you refused to perform in performances that were coed. On the other hand, there are many coed performances in Israel where other chassidic music singers do perform. You refused to do it. You lost a lot of money and performances.
Ben David: There are macherim to say all kinds of lies and stupidities. If someone tells a rav that boys and girls danced together at a performance, what’s he supposed to say?
Tucker: Have you tried to reach rabbonim?
Ben David: I live abroad, I come only on occasion, like for your bris. I come only a day or two, a week at most.
Tucker: You have almost no performances here.
Ben David: I was here two years ago to make a performance, but it didn’t fulfill their criteria and they came out against it with many rabbonim signing on it, so I decided not to perform. So what do people do? I met an avreich and he told me he takes his daughters to performances which are not that kosher because there are none others.
Watch below entire Hebrew interview conducted by Mencham Toker Video Credit Toker.co.il
While I don’t think MBD is “the king of Jewish music”, he clearly is popular and his comments about the mindless efforts of certain rabbonim to limit his concerts is right on point. Just as was the case where a group of uninformed and in some cases, criminal factions within the chareidi leadership took actions to cancel the LIPA concert, there is no basis in torah or halacha to restrict an MBD concert with separate seating (other than to give some publicity starved rabbonim some media attention). There is nothing in the content of MBD’s music that would jeopardize a yiddeshe neshama.
Problem is, Most Rabunim don’t go all the way to find out the truth in what they are being told.
Unfortunately, it seems that most of these rabbonim believe anything that they are told, since they don’t have actual in-depth knowledge of these things.
This causes them to become very protective of their name and to go along with anything that has the slightest chance of coming back at them.
I firmly believe that is the reason why most rabbonim are not universally respected and held in a high regard, since they do not seem to stand up for what is truly right.
It would be nice to see rabbonim stand up to really important issues in the community for a change; that would be a much bigger kiddush hashem.
Reply to 1 wow look at that even mbd has more wisdom than you for at least he dosent slandar the rabbonim for he knows it’s not thair foult it’s the macherim who mislead theam and spread lies and rummers the rav dosent know better and pskend acording to what’s posed before him as mbd himself admits furthemore u should learn from him even though he thought the peak was eronies and based on false information he still did what’s right and listend to the rabbonim and refused to sing that’s the true meaning of the verse in our Torah that states to do ככל אשר יורך אפילו על ימין שהוא שמאל ועל שמאל שהוא ימין mbd has realy come a long way since his first start in music כה לחי and I hope that all the others learn from you
These Rabbonim are a joke. How dare they make decisions based on hearsay. They have a responsibility to take peoples lives seriously and seriously look into matters before they make their ridiculous psaks. If Rabbonim want any respect they need to earn it. Name alone or position alone shouldnt be a reason to respect some of these clowns
people ‘hock’ R’ Elyashiv and drive him nuts, same with the other poskim. When they are asked if a concert would be muttar with mized dancing, OF COURSE they’d say no. Who knows whether the presentation of the shaylos are accurate? But based upon what’s presented, their is nothing crazy about their Psak’s…
Rabbonim a joke?Clowns? If I were you I would bring some tank tops and shorts to where you’re headed after 120 if you don’t stop bashing Rabbonim.
With all do respect, I think that Tznis became a thing that people use as a focous to keep their minds busy, and to show look im frumer then you. All day we here Tznis , Tznis while important we have hlacha for that and we don’t need every lunatic to try to push their view onto me on what they think the halachos are in their warpt minds. If only are community would spend half their effort on bain adom lachavaro as they do on Tznis we would me in a lot better shape in my opinion. We have special gatherings that talk about Tznis I think we should have one on bain odom lachvaro, how to act when you are in public, not to make a chilul Hashem.
I just question why does MBD not come a few day earlier and talk to the rah- bonim if his livelihood depends on these concerts. His excuse is very poor.
the mo show their true colors again, kol hamevazeh talmid chochum ein lo chelek biolam habah vikover bonov bichayov, thank g-d we’ll get rid of the modern erev rav
Rabbonim are not stupid!
Poiskim have celestial powers and Ruach Hakodesh given from Shomayim and can be Soimech on heresay alone.
i fell loo% that we have to be respectful and yes in this day and age i wold be so happy for my talmidim to go to this concert i would be praying to hashem with love because of most of them i never would of thought they know of mbd after only then should we worry about mbd
to those commenting on 6,
1. Rabbi Falk is in fact king, ask around in how many schools is sefer is used
2. the off the derech kids is a differnt story, let it be spelled out that way
3. can someone please quote a Rav with a name who saw his Birur and is Cholek on him