Matisyahu

What the Rambam says is not agreed upon by all, but we're not going to get into that discussion because it's not Hanukkah time, it's Rosh Hashanah time, so we're going to move on from there, but there is a discussion about this next line in the Rambam.

The Yohanan Kohen Gadol, whenever you see Yohanan Kohen Gadol, who Yohanan ben Matisyahu, That's Yohanan, the son of Matisyahu, who was famous, who was mentioned in the prayers, and part of his great victories over the Greek kings.

So he's learning that Yohanan Kohen Gadol is the son of Matisyahu.

Now if you look at our davening in the Al-Anissim, it sounds like Matisyahu is the son of Yohanan Kohen Gadol.

And so then that would

have been his grandfather.

But I do want to just say, you mentioned the Rosh, and I was thinking about this.

Mamish, yesterday I was driving, I was in Chicago, and this is how I drive, I drive like this, and I was thinking that the Rosh, you know, and the Rosh, Rabbi Sha, the Rosh is the Rosh Yeshiva in Los Angeles, and Yeshiva is called affectionately the Rosh, and he once spoke in Yeshiva, It was then at the height of the popularity of Matisyahu, the Jewish rapper, reggae singer, and there was a lot of controversy.

Do the Bochum listen? Do they not listen? Is it okay? Is it what? And he spoke, and he said something very simple, but very, very deep.

It wasn't about anything specific.

It was just, in general, this concept... that this is not the first time in history that such an idea comes up.

And it's very, very understandable and logical that you can have one product, right? He wasn't speaking specifically, but at that time, Matisyahu, with his music, was being the car of a lot of people to Yiddishkeit.

And on the other side, people were saying, it's not okay for Yeshiva Bacher to listen to it.

So Rabbi Shochat was saying that you have a concept like by the Torah Duma, You have one thing that for one person, it's mamish, a bomb for his soul, it's mamish medicine.

Okay.

And then for our Cape Town version of this, we've decided to use the song One Day by Matis Yahu, which we've rewritten and rearranged with South African language and style.

Okay.

Very, very cool.

That our letters are unviable that they're there completely.

We just have to, like Matisyahu said, arise and shake off the dust, right? We just have to get to, that's all.

Realize, and we're going to mess up the eggs, like we're going to, and each, and on the next Madrigal, like even when we make it on the best level, but compared to the next Madrigal, we're for sure messing it up.

But that's part of the Negev.

I remember, like, my husband saying, like, "This is not, this is, like, nonprofit." Like, this is just going out there to reach people, to spread light, and having so many people coming in.

Like Alex Clare, Matisyahu, Mendy Warch, like, all of them, like, they became uplifted.

They became part of the chevra, and that's why the family just keeps growing-

Growing