I’d like to know your thoughts on “Kiruv?”
BS”D
Kiruv and the New Age nonsense of Carlebach, neo-Chassidism loosely based on a strange combination of a few pages of Likutei Moharan and Kabbalah cults have nothing to do with one another. We do not lower ourselves and allow all kinds of krum ideas to penetrate our communities and call it kiruv. Carlebach was a dishonest freak who should have said outright that he was not frum as his buddy Zalman Schachter did and still does.
And one thing is for sure, I don’t listen to Carlebach in this world and I won’t be listening to him in the next world either – because I am not headed to that place where the boiler room operates 24/7 and where the loudspeaker plays Carlebach all day.
As for the ban, it goes a little too far – but a hashgocho or rating system on music, including albums, concerts and videos, is not a bad idea.