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#1 rali

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 03:32 PM

Wasn't sure where to put this!!
If you keep the first half of the Omer, I know you're allowed to listen to music during Chol Hamoed Pesach, but what about Rosh Chodesh?

#2 Rabbi Shapiro

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Posted 19 April 2012 - 06:47 PM

No, you cannot (except at a seudas mitzvah).

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Posted 09 May 2012 - 07:09 PM

Is acapella music that is made and changed to be computer generated usser to listen to during sefira? For example, music that A.K.A. pella makes?

#4 Rabbi Shapiro

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Posted 15 May 2012 - 07:55 AM

Is acapella music that is made and changed to be computer generated usser to listen to during sefira? For example, music that A.K.A. pella makes?

I am not familiar with that particular group, but if the computer enhancement make the singing sound more musical than it does in real life, you should not listen to it.

Recorded music is problematic on Sefirah because the device playing the music is itself an instrument - no different than a synthesizer, for example. But when the device is merely playing voices singing without any musical accompaniment, then we do not treat the reproduced sounds stricter than we would if the sounds were live. A synthesizer can play music but it can also play noise. and where the Halachos of Sefirah is concerned, plain singing is not considered music.

However, if those voices are electronically changed to something more enhanced than voices, it would be considered synthesized music, and has the same status as any other synthesized music.