Rabbi Shais Taub & Eli Marcus—SoulSongs: Niggun Mashinke

[Music] welcome back to soul songs and we are discussing some of the Nagar name which are near and dear to us and we'd like to share with you one of them is interesting new gun known as negan a machine care shrink it a machine cut is a knitting machine yeah like a sock knitting sake it's like a reference round circular thing right what significance this little round knitting machine have so it's known that the back in the Soviet Union especially during certain era 20s the 30s it was very difficult to make a living because of communist oppression and one way that religious Jews had of making a living and being able to keep Shabbos is to have a machine cat at home and they would knit at home yeah it's called that to Kitaj now now this particular negan was composed by the famous Bama noggin lab Shalom kharitonov from the famous musical Harriton a family very prolific composers very prolific composers so that shalem's brother a baron composed some very famous and you name among them the you'd base you'd get mo camos [Music] oh yeah yeah yeah [Music] and then and their father Avram was also big domino game and up Schiller was a composer in his own right and his son champion Kharitonov actually put together an album in the 70s called ninguna Shalom ya actually have the record at home yeah I know the vinyl yes that's interesting there are liner notes on you know kids don't know what this is but in the old LPs you have a lot of space to write on so there there are liner notes on and it gives a little bit of background on each of the new gunam so for the da mashenka the liner notes talked about that costed endeavours to take all of his possessions whose material possessions and turned them into vessels for godliness right it's a very fundamental aesthetic concept and not only that but the machine itself represents this you know taking all these different you know materials and forming something totally different that of something cohesive yeah now there's more to the story and it's not on the liner notes which is that Absalom we should mention he lived in dire poverty he was a shaker to Vedic ritual slaughterer but in 1929 the Communists outlawed ritual slaughter so he moved around a lot looking for livelihood and toward the end of his days he ended up in Moscow and he ordered this mashenka in hopes that it would provide a way to make a living now apparently what happened is that up Shalom and another hostage it's much that parrots much chicken they both you had to prepay for the mashenka so they sent money and I believe it came from overseas and then you wait for your admission car to arrive and in the end one machine car I've both had paid and it wasn't clear whose machine car arrived and who was out of money what does it you do when he needs clarity they went to a rough they went to a rabbi to listen to their dispute and to rule according to halakha according to Jewish law what is done in such monetary matter who does the machine along to you who to whom does the machine belong yeah so apparently the stories like this that while the nuptials waiting the verdict to find out whether he's gonna be awarded the mashenka or not he composed the negan now in the end for whatever reasons that I've awarded the Machine Cotuit up edits and if show them did not get the actual machine cut but he got the song and we got the song and we have the song yep posterity so negan a machine holy aw no oh yeah No you know Oh No not Oh [Music] Oh I'm yeah yeah oh you know Oh [Music] Ryan oh it all Oh [Music] Oh [Music] Oh tierno yah yah oh yah oh yah oh yah oh yah oh yah oh yah oh yah oh yah oh no oh no oh you know you [Music] whoa boy [Music] Oh [Music] my mama [Music] No [Music] my MA Oh Holy Love yet I oh yeah [Music] you