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BEHAALOTCHA 5784 Fighting Fire With Fire Rabbi Andrew Shaw Chief Executive, Mizrachi UK
Spotify, YouTube Music and other Music streaming apps are wonderful inventions. To be able to hear any song at any time is, for someone who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, remarkable. One of the features of these music apps, is that of the mix or playlist. They just play various songs that you have either listened to sometime in the past or songs that are similar to those that you like. I had one of these mixes running in YouTube Music this morning, and Billy Joel, one of my favourite artists, was playing. The song was his 1989 hit, ‘We didn’t start the fire.’ It is a great song, cataloguing the political events of the era from the year of his birth 1949 - to the then present day, 1989. The premise of the song is contained in the chorus: We didn't start the fire, https://mailchi.mp/mizrachi/dvar-torah-for-parashat-behaalotecha-17979602
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