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“We are hyperfocused on fighting antisemitism, when the Jewish mission is to spread light to the nations,” the Jewish rapper said ahead of his performance at the annual Lag Ba’omer “One Flame Festival” in Tzfat.
By United with Israel
Popular rapper Nissim Black, increasingly outspoken on behalf of the recent plight of the Jews, implored world Jewry Wednesday to stop fighting antisemitism and instead spread more light as the most powerful way forward to vanquish its enemies.
The 38-year-old hip hop rap star made the comments a day before a performance at a Lag Ba’omer festival scheduled in what he referred to as his “spiritual home away from home” of Tsfat.
“We are hyperfocused on fighting antisemitism, when the Jewish mission is to spread light to the nations,” Black said in a telephone interview from his home.
“We are so influential, the more we focus on antisemitism, the more they do. The arguments are any way mostly irrational like going back and forth with a 5-year-old. But if we focus on our light and our other contributions, then we can bring the whole world the redemption that it is waiting on.”
Fitting comments for Black while preparing for a concert being produced by the decidedly spiritual Lubavitch Chabad Yeshiva Temimei Darech at its annual Lag Ba’omer “One Flame Festival.”
Rosh Yeshiva and founder, Rabbi Shalom Pasternak, who himself is a seasoned jazz pianist and directs the yeshiva’s own “Kabbalah Dream Orchestra,” will also be on the bill, along with guest performer son of performer Matisyahu, Laivy Miller, another vocal proponent for Israel with a growing Israeli following.
Hostage families have been invited for free in another of the event’s aims to bolster and support.
Black’s remarks come less than two weeks after he appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” in support of a panel disclaiming the views of a former Columbia University professor espousing the “Palestinian” cause.
Black’s own life took a markedly spiritual course, having traversed from Muslim beginnings as a child to Christianity to devout and passionate membership as a Torah-observant Jew and Hasid. He lives in Beit Shemesh with wife, Adina, and seven children, juggling a busy family life with concert, record production and interview schedule.
He expressed great excitement about his coming visit to the mystical city of Tsfat, where he said his “neshama [soul] screams out in joy.”
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