{"id":98572,"date":"2022-11-20T02:15:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98572"},"modified":"2022-11-20T02:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:15:47","slug":"singing-to-a-different-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/singing-to-a-different-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing to a Different Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Singing to a Different Tune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I entered the Beit Hamidrash one day, my ears were assailed by an inappropriate tune. Since I was covered with a tallit, the man humming the tune did not notice me immediately. As I turned my head toward him, he took note of my presence and fell silent. He apologized, stating that he was not aware that I had arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Since we were among others, I did not want to openly rebuke him. Instead, I asked softly, \u201cYou are ashamed to sing such songs before me. But what about Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Whose glory fills the world? How can you sing such a despicable song in the Beit Hamidrash, the place of His <em>Shechinah<\/em>? Where is your <em>yirat Shamayim<\/em>? Where is your shame before your Maker, Who sustains you every moment of life?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I hoped that my words made their mark and reinforced his yirat Shamayim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing to a Different Tune As I entered the Beit Hamidrash one day, my ears were assailed by an inappropriate tune. Since I was covered with a tallit, the man humming the tune did not notice me immediately. As I turned my head toward him, he took note of my presence and fell silent. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fear-of-heaven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}