What Are You Listening To

[Randomex]

Listened last night and today:
The Eli Spitzer Podcast (https://espitzer1.podbean.com) - episode with Rav Shraga Feivel Zimmerman

That was about a recent kerfuffle in the UK over gittin, and was pretty interesting.

That link no longer works. The episode can be heard on YouTube here or on Audible(?) here - https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Eli-Spitzer-Podcast-Podcast/B08JJMVLJ9 - but possibly only with an Amazon account.
(The lists of other episodes available on those 2 platforms may not be identical.)

[Randomex]

The recent Headlines episode on drug/alcohol use by our high-schoolers.
Stream / Download

I also recently listened to an interview with "Rabbi Greenspan"/"Pinchas Lurkowitz"-of-The-Crockpot-Show,
released over 2 episodes of the Kiddush Club podcast.
(I haven't yet listened to any other episodes, but they've had Rabbi Alexander Hool on, so I think
I'll try at least that - it's also the only one with more YouTube plays than the Greenspan ones.)
Part 1 - YouTube / Stream / Download
Part 2 - YouTube / Stream / Download

[Dan]

[Yehudaa]

HT: Momo Bauman / Meaningful People

[Dan]

[YitzyS]

Does anyone know where the lyrics are from?

[yuneeq]

Does anyone know where the lyrics are from?

Most of it comes from the Seder Ha'avoda in chazarat Musaf on Yom Kippur. At least for Sephardim. And much of this prayer comes from the mishna in Yoma.

ETA: see here https://trmarvin.org/the-unbearable-darkness-of-being/ and here https://www.sefaria.org.il/Machzor_Yom_Kippur_Sefard%2C_Musaf_Service%2C_The_Avodah_Service.2?vhe=Machzor_Yom_Kippur&lang=he

[ExGingi]

Most of it comes from the Seder Ha'avoda in chazarat Musaf on Yom Kippur. At least for Sephardim. And much of this prayer comes from the mishna in Yoma.

ETA: see here https://trmarvin.org/the-unbearable-darkness-of-being/ and here https://www.sefaria.org.il/Machzor_Yom_Kippur_Sefard%2C_Musaf_Service%2C_The_Avodah_Service.2?vhe=Machzor_Yom_Kippur&lang=he

I think we're all familiar with Seder Avoda. So I would say that's NOT where the lyrics come from.

The lyrics of this song use those words as a seed but interject other lyrics and meanings (counting aveirus, blessings, etc. rather than הזיות). These are obviously MODERN lyrics (you won't find the word פספוס anywhere in חז"ל. And other expressions such as בא ממקום שהוא בא etc. are obviously not in the sources of חז"ל).

ETA: (from Wikipedia) השיר נכתב על ידי ריבו עצמו, ומבוסס על תוכנם של ה"וידויים וההזאות" שנאמרים ביום כיפור בליבה של אמירת סדר העבודה, וגם הולחן והופק על ידיו, בשיתוף עם מאור שושן.

[YitzyS]

My question was if there is a source for the actual words, not what is was based on.

I'm puzzled by the actual words. They seem completely inconsistent with the actual order of the events (which is why I'm asking about them).

Case in point - the first lyrics. "Nichnas Lemakom Shenichnas, Amad Lemakom She'amad." Those are words describing the Kohen Gadol going back into the Kodesh Hakedashim. But a few words later is "Pashat Bigdai hachol, lavesh bidai lavan," which happened earlier. A few words later, he says "Ana hashem Kaper... ani ubaisi". That happened before the Kohen Gadol went into the Kodesh Hakedashim for the first time.

That being the case, I'm wondering if this is just a loose song with a bunch of random phrases, or if there is something here I'm missing.

[ExGingi]

My question was if there is a source for the actual words, not what is was based on.

I'm puzzled by the actual words. They seem completely inconsistent with the actual order of the events (which is why I'm asking about them).

Case in point - the first lyrics. "Nichnas Lemakom Shenichnas, Amad Lemakom She'amad." Those are words describing the Kohen Gadol going back into the Kodesh Hakedashim. But a few words later is "Pashat Bigdai hachol, lavesh bidai lavan," which happened earlier. A few words later, he says "Ana hashem Kaper... ani ubaisi". That happened before the Kohen Gadol went into the Kodesh Hakedashim for the first time.

That being the case, I'm wondering if this is just a loose song with a bunch of random phrases, or if there is something here I'm missing.

Yes!!!

It's a nice song, but the name is misleading.

[yuneeq]

I think we're all familiar with Seder Avoda. So I would say that's NOT where the lyrics come from.

They’re literally taken from there, and you’re not saying anything different, but you do you.

[ExGingi]

They’re literally taken from there, and you’re not saying anything different, but you do you.

Take all the lyrics of the song, and compare them to Seder Avoda. I doubt if you'll find 50% match/accuracy (I didn't check). That's beside the point that the lyrics of the song DO NOT DESCRIBE Seder Haavoda (hence @YitzyS questions being meaningless), it is about acknowledging חטאים of a person and חסדים of Hashem using phrases from סדר העבודה. (As a side note: I doubt if anyone counting their sins or their blessings, would count אחת ואחת etc., it simply doesn't make sense - but it's using poetic license)

The name of the song, combined with several quotes and paraphrases from Seder Avoda, is misleading (though it could be referring to every person's personal עבודת השם).

[Euclid]

Take all the lyrics of the song, and compare them to Seder Avoda. I doubt if you'll find 50% match/accuracy (I didn't check). That's beside the point that the lyrics of the song DO NOT DESCRIBE Seder Haavoda (hence @YitzyS questions being meaningless), it is about acknowledging חטאים of a person and חסדים of Hashem using phrases from סדר העבודה. (As a side note: I doubt if anyone counting their sins or their blessings, would count אחת ואחת etc., it simply doesn't make sense - but it's using poetic license)

The name of the song, combined with several quotes and paraphrases from Seder Avoda, is misleading (though it could be referring to every person's personal עבודת השם).

He specifically said that it's from the *Sefardi* nusach.

[YitzyS]

He specifically said that it's from the *Sefardi* nusach.

Still doesn't make the order of things correct

[aygart]

They’re literally taken from there, and you’re not saying anything different, but you do you.

Amazing that it is also from tehillim. At least most of the words are literally there.

[Euclid]

Still doesn't make the order of things correct

I'm not familiar with the nusach. Maybe the פייטן wrote it that way.

[Yehuda57]

Take all the lyrics of the song, and compare them to Seder Avoda. I doubt if you'll find 50% match/accuracy (I didn't check). That's beside the point that the lyrics of the song DO NOT DESCRIBE Seder Haavoda (hence @YitzyS questions being meaningless), it is about acknowledging חטאים of a person and חסדים of Hashem using phrases from סדר העבודה. (As a side note: I doubt if anyone counting their sins or their blessings, would count אחת ואחת etc., it simply doesn't make sense - but it's using poetic license)

The name of the song, combined with several quotes and paraphrases from Seder Avoda, is misleading (though it could be referring to every person's personal עבודת השם).

It's 100 degrees, I'm sweating and I grab a drink and say, "ahhhhh, nothing better than an ice cold beer on a hot summer day."
@ExGingi breaks through the wall and says, "Well, actually, if it was ice cold it would be frozen, it's merely cold beer you're drinking. And water is better for you on a hot summer day."

[ExGingi]

He specifically said that it's from the *Sefardi* nusach.

POIDH!

[ExGingi]

It's 100 degrees, I'm sweating and I grab a drink and say, "ahhhhh, nothing better than an ice cold beer on a hot summer day."
@ExGingi breaks through the wall and says, "Well, actually, if it was ice cold it would be frozen, it's merely cold beer you're drinking. And water is better for you on a hot summer day."

Last I checked the euphemism "ice cold beer" and the actual term "cold beer" are more than 50% identical. 

[YitzyS]

I'm not familiar with the nusach. Maybe the פייטן wrote it that way.

The Paytan did not write it out of order.

The Mishnah says: כָּל מַעֲשֵׂה יוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים הָאָמוּר עַל הַסֵּדֶר, אִם הִקְדִּים מַעֲשֶׂה לַחֲבֵרוֹ, לֹא עָשָׂה כְלוּם. The order is very specific, and can't be changed.