Lyrics for Hishbati Eschem

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PBA: I heard Satmar enjoys singing that one.

I honestly have not been able to find any Heter (or even a Limud Zchus) for singing any songs where the lyrics come from Shir HaShirim. And certainly not any that contain concepts like love.

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Popa, it was discussed here:

Making a Song Out of a Pasuk

It’s not on hebrewbooks, which only has the ?”? up to ??? ?”?.

Got it. I was aware of the source of pesukim, but unaware it was read to apply only to shir hashirim.

Sam: What is the sevara on that? The medrash says “asauni banayich k’min zemer” (MB’s language) which would seem to apply to any passuk. I figure maybe it could be read to mean only if it isn’t being sung as inspiration davka of the passuk. But why wouldn’t that apply to shir hashirim also?

(Also, should it apply to other places similar to shir hashirim? How about eishes chayil?)

Shir Hashirim is Kodesh Kodoshim.

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37951&st=&pgnum=427

Also, the fact that Shir Hashirim uses the relationship between a man and a woman as a moshol for the relationship between klal Yisroel and the Eibishter makes it particularly dangerous to make songs out of it (although most learn that the issur applies to all of Tanach).

IIRC, there’s also a teshuva from R’ Moshe about it; I’ll try to find it.

PBA: R’ Moshe says it is only about Shir Hashirim as a Limud Z’chus on using any Passuk. The basic reason is that Shir HaShirim is the easiest to confuse for an actual love song. We might mean the Torah when we hear “Kol Dodi Hinei Zeh Ba” but that’s certainly not what it sounds like. I could see the S’vara extending to Eishes Chayil. Then again, if I had to guess, I would think that Eishes Chayil (unlike Shir HaShirim) is meant to be true on a Pashut Pshat level as well. When you give Pashut Pshat in Shir HaShirim, you lose what it actually means. Saying Eishes Chayil about one’s wife (as an actual love song) is something Jews have been doing for hundreds of years, if not longer.

DY: This is awkward. You just quoted a T’shuvah of the TZ”E that I was entirely unaware of. B”N I’m going to go look it up right now.

According to the shita that holds that making a song out of Tanach is problematic only by using a whole pasuk, then R’ Baruch Ber’s song would not be a problem.

Sam, the Gemara only says that we tell her, look what we took for a Mashal.

Why was my comment not posted? According to the shitah that only a whole passuk is problematic then R’ Baruch Ber’s song would not be a problem.

See above.