The Maccabeats

My view is that if this song was good enough for the Chofetz Chaim ZTL…

huh?

A friend of mine’s something or other is friends with one of the maccabeats and they said that they got a ton of calls from people who were lighting candles and wanted to know more about Chanukah and their heritage.

As for the people who say well it’s good for public school people but not us. Well the song they took it from is a totally appropriate song (that’s what my friend said anyway.)and it’s better than some other famous singers who’s tunes come from bad songs.

mischiefmaker:

Yup, I saw it. It was a heck of a long proposal!

candy613 and seminary help….i culdn’t agree with u2 more!!! r skwl luvs it:)

smile:

I hear where you’re coming from. I’m wondering why you don’t consider it Kosher though. If the Maccabbes would listen to most of todays music, they probably wouldn’t be happy. Is this the only song you would say that about, or would that go for much of the current music?

My (limited) understanding of music is that if a song brings someone closer to Hashem, that is the ultimate. If someone lit Menorah over Chanukah because of it, would that not bring Kedushah to the song?

I apologize if this came off as an “attack”, it was completely not intended as such.

*kapusta*

Saw the video the other night, my sons showed it to me. They knew it was a parody of a goyish song, I didn’t – and still haven’t got a clue about the original song. But this is quite cute and well done! To all the above posters who think this is “harmful”, get a life. Do you really think someone will see this and think it’s not a good representation of some pleasant, clean cut young men having a good time? If you do, get a life! Besides which, the aforementioned People’s Court video is a much more negative view, and surely problematic.

I remember showing the Lecha video that was out a few years ago to some non-Jewish coworkers, and they loved the dancing!

by girl sorry i didnt reply for a long time but nope i dont live in ny so its not your school but i pretty much think everyone has heard about them.

The bottom line is that they brought a lot of simcha this year to many. Every kid in every school was singing it 24/7. Some of the comments said things like, I haven’t lit candles in over 20 years, but I did this year.

As far as using something non-Jewish, Henry Ford was not exactly Jewish, or a great friend of the Jews. If one drove a Ford to a shiur, does that make the shiur less pure and holy?

In the “modern” music world, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach zt”l was truly original, sang for Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l, yet so many mocked him during his lifetime.

Did anyone else have any problems with the girls in “Book of Good Life”?

GAW, Please explain why caring to look at girls have to do with being online?

If you’re soo shtark then don’t watch the maccabeats video! Noones forcing you to watch it!!

Bekitzur: They asked Shailas about it and were told it was okay. I believe they ran everything by Rav Willig, but I could be mistaken about who they asked. The reason for it was that they had received many complaints from a lot of random groups for not having women in there (one publication called them “Ultra-orthodox chauvinistic pigs”, if I recall correctly), so they felt it might be a Chillul Hashem to keep women out again. They did ask Shailas before they did it though. I wouldn’t expect that many women in a future video though. This one was mostly just because of the extenuating circumstances.

Sam4: Sure, Rav Schachter knew. They told him beforehand and he even knew that at a certain point the Macabbeat in the video would ask a question.

Sam2:is that a haskama?

Sam4: I do not know what Rav Schachter knew about the rest of the video, but he was Maskim on them filming his Shiur for a day.

i listened to the new one. gonna be a hard sell for me. loved the first one much more

Moishy, Ironic it sounds more goyish – this year they did a cover of “Miracle” davka about chanukah, word for word, no need to change the lyrics, that was put out by Matisyahu (who may not be your flavour of frum, but davening, tzitzis wearing, shomer shabbos and kashrus, full of ahavas yisroel frum) last year. It is actually the most Jewish song they covered yet.

teehee, I LOVE it!!! Book of good life was my favorite song and video so far, but still this chanukah one is great. I think that personally it does more good than harm. I agree with all these posters from last year that it is a really nice portayol of Jews. I agree totally that yidden are getting such bad attention with either being “ultra-orthodox” (whatever that means) or as scheming swindlers rachmana litzlan! hopefully the world can see finally that we are “normal” (still, we are the am segulah) people, who happen to have some members that unfortunately misrepresent us (I’m not saying that ultra orthodox misrepresent us, but in the news they are not portrayed in the kindest light), and have good, wholesome, nice young guys who can sing beautifully and make awesome videos.

you don’t have to agree with me, because I already am anticipating some comments already- but let’s all hope that for everyones sake they continue making more fun and kosher entertainment!!!

– while we’re at it- come on maccabeats- give us an original song finally!!!