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For the first time since their departure from Egypt the Israelites do something together. They sing. \u201cThen sang Moses and the children of Israel.\u201d Rashi, explaining the view of R. Nehemiah in the Talmud (Sotah 30b) that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the holy spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their minds at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an inner connection between music and the spirit. When language aspires to the transcendent and the soul longs to break free of the gravitational pull of the earth, it modulates into song. Words are the language of the mind. Music is the language of the soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when we seek to express or evoke emotion we turn to melody. Deborah sang after Israel\u2019s victory over the forces of Siserah (Judges 5). Hannah sang when she had a child (1 Sam. 2). When Saul was depressed, David would play for him and his spirit would be restored (1 Sam. 16). David himself was known as the \u201csweet singer of Israel\u201d (2 Sam. 23: 1). Elisha called for a harpist to play so that the prophetic spirit could rest upon him (2 Kings 3: 15). The Levites sang in the Temple. Every day, in Judaism, we preface our morning prayers with Pesukei de-Zimra, the \u2018Verses of Song\u2019 with their magnificent crescendo, Psalm 150, in which instruments and the human voice combine to sing God\u2019s praises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Music has extraordinary power to evoke emotion. The Kol Nidrei prayer with which Yom Kippur begins is not really a prayer at all. It is a dry legal formula for the annulment of vows. There can be little doubt that it is its ancient, haunting melody that has given it its hold over the Jewish imagination. It is hard to hear those notes and not feel that you are in the presence of God on the Day of Judgment, standing in the company of Jews of all places and times as they pleaded with heaven for forgiveness. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nor can you sit on Tisha B\u2019av reading Eichah, the book of Lamentations, with its own unique cantillation, and not feel the tears of Jews through the ages as they suffered for their faith and wept as they remembered what they had lost, the pain as fresh as it was the day the Temple was destroyed. Words without music are like a body without a soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faith is more like music than like science. Science analyzes, music integrates. And as music connects note to note, so faith connects episode to episode, life to life, age to age in a timeless melody that breaks into time. God is the composer and librettist. We are each called on to be voices in the choir, singers of God\u2019s song. Faith teaches us to hear the music beneath the noise.<\/span><\/p>\n

From <\/span>Music, Language, <\/span><\/i>Covenant & Conversation,<\/span><\/i> Beshallach (5772)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":63279,"id":63279,"title":"2kings3-music soothes","filename":"2kings3-music-soothes.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2kings3-music-soothes.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/elishas-musical-interlude\/2kings3-music-soothes\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2kings3-music-soothes","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":63278,"date":"2019-09-22 11:29:33","modified":"2022-05-04 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