Modzitz and Music.

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Rebbi Yechezkel of Modzitz said :

People say that the heavenly palace of music (nigun) is next to the heavenly palace of repentance.

I say that that the heavenly palace of music is above that of repentance.

He also stated that music is the expression of the soul.

It was with this that one of the pupils of the Hozeh de Luvlin started the Chassidic dynsaty of Modzitz. It was with the music that his Chassidim and followers managed to survive the difficulties of before and during the two world wars.

Rebbi Yisroel Taub (1849-13 Kislev 1920)

The Modzitzer Hassidim officially started with Yisroel Taub who was the grandson of Rebbi Yecheskel.

Once he had to have a leg amputated. He did not want to have an anaesthetic. An anaesthetic in those times (1913) was dangerous.He instead told the doctor to do the operation without an anaesthetic .

The buildings outside his clinic in Berlin were a little like the buildings in Jerusalem. During the operation he compossed an opera in memory of Jerusalem. The opera Eskra takes about a half an hour to sing and consists of 36 sections.

In his sefer (work) Divrey Yisroel he explains the verse Take the branches of the land. Branches in Hebrew also means tunes.

He explains how the seven notes of music correspond to the seven days of the week and to the seven planets that can be seen with the naked eye. These also correspond to seven levels or ways of serving G*d.

One of the Modzitzer Rebbis said that just like there are the days of awe in the year - Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur so there are the days of awe in the creation. The days of awe are now. Just as during the days of awe during the year one must repent so now we must repent.
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Now is the time for a national repentance.

"Each party must cast aside its egotism, and each person his self-interest, when it comes to the matter of Eretz Yisrael...As my great-grandfather, Rav Yechezkel of Kuzmir would say: 'The Temple was destroyed because of sinas chinam, undeserved hate; we must rectify it with ahavas chinam, undeserved love."

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