My Journey Back Home to Hasidic Judaism - Lipa Schmeltzer | Inspiration for the Nation Episode 4
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- Lipa is one of the most talented artists in the Jewish world. His brilliant lyrics and unique style led him to a quick rise to fame.
But Lipa was still figuring out who he was.
Schmeltzer's music has both gained popularity due to the fusion of traditional Chasidic music and lyrics with contemporary music styles. His performance range includes "hard-driving rock tunes, jazzy shuffles, pseudo-rap numbers, solemn prayers, klezmer dances and jokey skits, accompanied by a nine-piece band and a troupe of actors". He writes lyrics in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
Lipa has been going through a journey. After "leaving" his community and going to college, he has returned with a new look at life, his music and himself.
Aside for being an incredible artist he is a deeply intelligent and honest person.
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I'm not Jewish but this interview is really inspirational for many reasons
Sooooooo agreed!
It amazing how you were able see how amazing he is even though it a different culture, God bless you
He is so awesome, deep, searching, honest. I have fallen in love. Maybe i will return to chassidus. It was my beginning. It is difficult being a child of holocaust survivors.
I find it very interesting that people do come back later on in life
If you were the only person to watch this interview it was all worth it ♥️. It’s never too late.
@@LivingLchaim Not sure what you mean by that. What was well worth it?
The trauma gets passed on in the form of PTSD. If you do something about it, you needn’t pass it down to your children.
When I was off the D 15 years ago I once met lipa in Goldberg’s grocery in middle of the night and almost passed out I was actually star struck! I memorized every one of his songs he kept me alive thru many days of loneliness and his father should be very very very proud of him!!!
The song with the son crying saying he won’t be judged well on yom hadin and the mother speaks to him and says I have such a holy son of course you will be judged well……I would sob to that song at 15 years old and it got me thru so much.
I'm off the derech now and still love a lot of his older music. Especially the album A Poshiter Yid.
@@alexklein455 ❤️
@@alexklein455 Lipa came back and so can you!
whats that song called please?.
I grew up on the far far left end of modern orthodoxy and began my real ascent to frumkeit in major way in college. A friend of mine introduced me to Lipa's music. I would listen to Lipa's "Shelo Asani Goy" through my headphpones; I understood the one Hebrew line, and then I came across an English translation of the Yiddish lyrics online. It really spoke to me!
In no small way was this song, listened to while I was literally "tzvishen goyim" on my way to class, etc, a part of why I left a few months later to learn in Israel. The plan was to take a break from college to straighten myself and my grades out, then come back. I never did ;). I've been a ben torah ever since.
After having learnt in Israel for about a year and half, I was back in the US for pesach and actually saw Lipa on the street in Flatbush (i think it was). I almost went over to him to thank him but was too shy. Maybe a youtube comment can count as tashlumin?
I absolutely love when personalities such as Lipa become vulnerable and let us in. Kol Hakavod Lipa!
Love You Lipa !!
❤️❤️❤️
A true artist holds a mirror up to society. They show society a picture of themselves through their art - the good, the bad and the silly. Lipa is such a true artist - through his music, his lyrics, his art and his other antics .
#lipa - What a beautiful man, I fell in love with him from the moment he opened his mouth! I took many things away from this - all of which were positive. Thank you for sharing and caring!
Lipa you are my rabbi (role model)❤
Thank you Lipa for speaking raw honest words from your heart. I cried throughout the interview. Your a beautiful neshama, a deep searching soul who is always striving for better. And that in my eyes is a tssadik! I 2cnd the quote a commenter wrote. NISHT A POSHETER YID! HATSLACHA RAABA ! May you be blessed in all your endeavors.
As an Architect, Musician, Businessman I appreciate the respect that Lipa has for his father and family, and although this formed him in the world, it's also freed him. BH. We cannot escape the creative gifts HaShem gives us to express the world thro' our lives, Lipa is proof of this not in spite of his struggles but because.
Lipa was always my hero. Since I was a child. Somehow I always felt like he would understand my struggles 🥹
This was a beautiful interview about growth.
He's so honest and humble!! Thank you Living Lchaim for this episode!
Very inspiring this interview gives me strength to continue on my own journey.
Bracha v'hatzlacha Lipa Schmeltzer!!!
Wow wow! I live in Israel, yet on many levels I've been through many similar stuff (although not the famous part). Lipas come back really inspires me and gives me hope. Also big shout out to the interviewer. The questions, the set up is amazing. Thank you
What a complex person, and what an incredible interview. It is always such a challenge for an interviewer to take a back seat and let the subject shine. I would love to see the art
Just listened to this last night. Unbelievable. So raw and honest, we can all learn from his journey!
I’m also not Jewish. This was very helpful to hear these good words and I’ll definitely benefit from applying them in action in my life. Thanks so much for sharing about your life.
I had the great privilege of being one of those weddings! Lipa was Amazing
Fantastic interview. I'm really glad I took the time to listen.
Fabulous interview. Lipa is quite an interesting person!
This sincerity is incredibly moving and beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Great interview!so truthful. Thank you!
Lipa, never stop your poetic songs!!! They certainly fill a void!!!
Much respect LIPA!!!
Wow
Wow wow, lipa, your are amazing, inspirational, and the Best Singer!!!
Amazing person with a good soul
Lipa you are a blessing.
Thanks for making this interview, great interview done by a great interviewer, lipa is the best he's honest talented and doing a great service for so many people including me who listens to his songs and love them with passion
Thank you Yakov! Such an amazing interview! Such raw and insightful honesty! Thank you Lipa for sharing so much of you with us!
Incredible interview.
What an amazing interview. I hope you are able to continue providing content until 120
Really great video. Loved his insight on running. Thank you!
Lipa Lipa, I admire your journey and artistry so much. I grew up with your music and resonated with it and with you as an artist in a very profound level. I always felt you were thrown under the bus for all the wrong reasons back then, but I'm glad people came around and accepted art for art and conventional entertainment for conventional entertainment. Your journey inspires me, your journey is powerful, and the fact that you're here and your music is still loved & appreciated is living proof that you've managed to make astronomical changes in orthodox circles and beyond. I relate with your pet peeve of not being understood. I always say we would all be better off if we invested a little more effort to see the world from the other person's perspective. Frankly it reflects the pushback and opposition you went through...
I respectfully disagree with your strategy on English & Hebrew, you had some great tracks written in both like Carry On & Yeled Katan from Yishai Lapidot, sure Yiddish is your forte, arguably I still think an artist like you can nail it all and you have! Maybe it means a different lyricist, maybe it means working with a dialect coach to perfect the accent, but I for one would still want to hear that from you. My point is that you're not competing with others, you are an artist competing with yourself! btw I've seen videos of famous actress Natalie Portman using a dialect coach too, in preparation for major roles it's no בושה I'm sure many others do too.
We all have moments struggles day to day,
It just seems easier to throw it all away....
but we must remember
we can make the climb.... ah!
I thank you and may reconsider writing in Hebrew and English once again.
Unbelievable interview. Lips keep it up!!!!! 😍🥰
What a journey and what a fascinating and talented individual.
B"H/ Lipa & a number of Chasidic singers have revealed the Kishkes of human music to the Chasidic World. They are Real Teachers who give over the Soul of Jewish Music which stems from our time having lived in most of the World Globe's nations.
Love the video. Waiting a long time for this. Thanks for making this video.
Wow thanks for the interview
Reb Lipa, you are so lucky that you have matured in such an amazing and respectful way!!
Keep being mechazek us.
Great interview. Seems like Lipa when through a lot. And has evolved.
מופלא. איזה עבודה פנימית. אתה משפיע על כל יהודי שמחפש אמת, פנימיות, דרך...
כל הכבוד. עלה והצליח.
Lipa great interview, love your honesty and humbleness, just listened this morning to your interview on Kol Mevaser with your brother Velvel, (from the month of Ader) and I kind of like it, so I checked if there is something new on youtube from you, and found this, I like your serenity.
Sorry for my English, we both went to the same Yeshiva Heiliga shtatel.
nah, good English!
Lipa you were mamesh mechazek me! Keep up your great work
Thank you so much!! I love Lipa's music!!! Growing up, A Posited Yid and Lipa Baderech cd's were always on repeat in the house and I always connectedto his music on a deep level! I love that I can finally hear his story.
Very nice. I am glad to get a small window into this fellow's life. Good interview.
So this is where Langer went,I couldn't find you on the last Meaningful People that I watched,very distressing!
I like the name of this thing though,good luck,very professional so far,fab work.Lipa's been entertaining the nation for years with his antics,so it's good to see he's finally found his niche.Can't be easy, but say what you will, his honesty is admirable and his school memories are enough to make anyone cry.I'm sorry you had to find your talents so painfully.
Good luck with your own show. You were great with Nachi Gordon and you are great now too. Keep up the great work and good luck.
Yasher Koach Godol! That was so Inspiring! Positive reinforcement!
Really enjoyed this interview.Saw him in a different light.I remember his first tape actually BeDerech. And the song BeDerech is my favorite from all his songs.
I found this interview my chance. I have no clue who you are Mr. Lipa. But your interview was inspiring. Your answers about not taking things personally or the moment you spoke about shadow woke made my soul jump.
Thank you yaakov Langer and lipa for doing this interview zayer inspiring
Thanks Avi. We love and appreciate you ♥️
Lipa u are awesome
Great interview 👍
I want to be as diligent in honesty❤
Lipa is the best all the time he is back stronger like never before with a lot of new stuff for the public
Lipa, come make an art show here in Lakewood, we'd love to see your work
Great Interview.
תודה רבה
Wow!
Powerful 💪💪💪
Wow... What an amazing story of resilience!
Greatest Yiddish artist post war
I have Always been a Fan of Lipa’s Chesed ; & I’ve always been a fan of Lipa’s Humor, which he displayed in his HASC videos.
I got to say hi to Lipa, when he was rehearsing at The Clifton, NJ ‘Y’, for a Big NY Concert. I didn’t stop & chat long enough, or ask for a photo.
excellent
I'd love for Lipa to spread that message, that a jew is a jew.. We might dress differently, have different values but at the end of the day we all believe in hashem, and want to grow!
Beautiful interview. Appreciate Lupa’s transparency. And Yaakov, great to see you again. The other site is not the same without you. It’s good, but just not the same. Oops! Lipa. I apologize.
Lipa's combination of poetic talent and NATURAL psychological insight has created something totally new, not just in jewish music, but in jewish culture.
However, the fact that he is more accepted in frum and chassidish culture today is not because he has changed, but because that society has changed.
Your music is awesome. From this interview I learnt how bad judging is and before you do it make sure you think about what would have happened if you where in there place.
I'd love to see Lipa's art! If I could rate this TH-cam video it would be a 5 star!!!
btw, after the 9 Days leading to Tisha B’Av, search for Yoni Eliav “Funk Medley 2020.” Lipa is the 1st Singing Super Star to Appear. You can see his sincerity at the end of the Medley.
Wow
Lipa 5.0 💙🤍💜
Added to Judy’s A Capella Channel on TH-cam
The Interviewer needs to stop saying “don’t say that yet, I want to get to that soon” it’s very unnatural and kills the flow. Let the conversation take you. It’s not a big deal to start talking about something a little and then get more in depth later on. Other than that great pod.
Dis Yaakov? Sounds just like his brother. It's uncanny.
ליפא די ביסט די בעסט!!!
Who is the writher and the book mentioned in the beginning of the interview
Eckharte Tolle
the dreamer
The reason of returning back to his community Is it just because of the crisis he went true and they helped him financial or because whoever was born as a chasid can not change? Is it impossible to leave the chasidus and live as an Orthodox Jew or will the chasidus eventually pull you back?
Please help me understand this part better🙏🏻
These are solid questions. At the same time, try to focus on what’s going on here. Lipa is a person yearning to find the truth. His community welcomed him back. This is beautiful.
It's extremely hard to leave. The community life is extremely powerful and well rounded in almost all aspects that effect your being. The way you're raised there and the filter through which you'll continue to see the world, will never leave you, no matter how far away you try to go. The traditional ways and all the emotion built around it is so deep entranced in your soul, that leaving it all together is really really difficult. If one is really bothered by living there and leaves, it seems there's a good chance he or she will stay torn for the rest of their lives inside them.
The drop out rate from the chasidic community is the lowest in orthodox Judaism, and even in the chairdi world the chasidim have the lowest rate (based on statistics from Israel). Only around one in thousand becomes completely secular (and around 3 percent become non chasidic but stay religious).
As lipa seems to have realized, you can stay part of the community, even if you realize certain flaws there, as a lot of people do in the first place, and try to have a positive impact in the areas which bothers them, and as a result, from a good place, doing constructive work, the chasidic community becomes even better.
Do you hear how he uses English words? He says England words but thinks in Yiddish.
It’s very difficult to find success outside.
It’s possible, but more than not easy.
Let's not call it off the derach. Let's call it Searching for ourselves
Don't say he doesn't sound like the Jewish version of Marlon Brando's Godfather... I can already see Mel Brooks screenplay in my head. 🤦🏻♂️
I’m post-orthodox as well. I won’t devote my whole life to something I don’t think is true. In fact I’d feel stupid if I wasted my whole life doing things just because I was taught to. Don’t think any God would expect me to either.
Lipa blows me away....He says "If I was just in the desert, and I drew in the sand"
I know! He draws great analogies!
Forgot to mention, that he came for free!!!! Just to make childrens happy!!!!!!
למה התרגום באנגלית ולא בעברית?????????............
What about Tikun Olam guys?? Tell some more about your ideology please. Thx
Lipa is amazing but put way Lipa for a second this interviewer has so much desperation and power!!
Nisht Kein Poshuteh Yid
What did he mean by שני וחמישי?
"You know, I used to do שני וחמישי but it's provocative so I stopped..."
While studying in Columbia, Lipa used to go live on Mondays and Thursday to speak his mind. It had a modern twist that the community didn’t agree with.
The Frum Community doesn’t believe so much in Therapy , yes some do some dnt : but in his world not
💙🙏🇮🇱
For knowledge of rabbi and jew people forever remain
If u Bring back ur shirt.....um when did he ever go a white shirt 😂
i wish jewish people all the needs they require and i would like us to imagine how horrible a world would be, which was not based upon gods laws..... peace to you.
Hi is still in middle
We all are
A "pusheter Yid" by any pshat (meaning)..thanks
It's a very nice interview with alot to internalize and learn from. If I can say a comment on this interview it's true Shluachas! Tell Abraham Fried he has nothing over you!
If there is a Lipa on the Pale Blue Dot, the Dot is the center of it all. Ok, my center for sure. Ha.
A piece of advice to Lipa! Pay attention to what Sagan is saying and think if you want to get into controversy by publicly flaunting Blue Truth in a place where truth is a living contradiction to the life style.
It doesn’t matter what Hashem wants as long as the culture fits it’s sweet and worth it
It doesn’t matter if you want a sweet culture it’s only worth it if God wants it done