Choppy: It’s nice of you to insult a person you never met (or worse, maybe someone you did). You have no idea who I am talking about and insulting such a person is preposterous. And yes, he was reliable. He was very involved with a lot of people near the state’s founding and was a tremendous Talmid Chacham to boot. He might have said this a bit tongue-in-cheek but I learned a long time ago to take everything that this man said as being mostly true. And whether or not the composer personally had this in mind, I guarantee that some people around him did (the phrase Lihyot Am Chofshi was very controversial and was almost not placed in the song).
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