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Modern Jewish worship music

I have two questions about this topic.

  1. Why is modern worship music in Judaism not more popular / existing? What I mean with modern worship music is the equivalent to Christian worship music, think Hillsong church songs and the pop-y music they sing at those ‘cool’ Sunday services of the big free churches that a lot of young people go to and which are becoming more popular, also on social media.

It seems like the music is a great way to make the faith / belief more accessible for the youth and being able to identify more with it. Conscious that this style of music / services of these churches is not possible for Shabbat services but it seems that these modern worship song are also popular outside of the services.

I know there is ‘Ruach’ music that is played and danced to at Simchas or summer camps but I feel like that you don’t really listen to those on a daily basis to connect with Hashem? Maybe because they’re also all in Hebrew and not everyone can understand? That’s at least my assumption, correct me if I’m wrong.

  1. Can we as Jews ‘utilise’ Christian worship songs to connect with Hashem? Particularly if they don’t explicitly mention Jsus or other Christian beliefs? A good example is this worship song which is about Jsus but doesn’t mention it directly and can only be inferred (mostly from context from the artists background) https://genius.com/Alex-yurkiv-take-me-to-the-river-i-will-swim-lyric

I know I can technically do whatever I want to connect with Hashem but curious for a halachic or kabalistic perspective on this.

Long story short, I just wish there would be more modern Jewish worship music like the Christian alike lol (if you know some, please let me know!)

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