{"id":82333,"date":"2020-10-27T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=82333"},"modified":"2020-10-29T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T17:11:25","slug":"a-news-song-for-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-news-song-for-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Song, For Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The psalmist often advocates for singing praises to God within Psalms, but in Chapter 33 he\u2019s a bit more specific. Not only does he provide the orchestral details on what instruments to use for accompaniment, now he\u2019s asking for a <\/span>shir chadash<\/span><\/em> \u2013 a <\/span>new<\/span><\/em> song (33:3). The language of <\/span>shir chadash<\/span><\/em> is not unique to this verse. It occurs several times in Psalms and elsewhere in Tanach. In the Book of Isaiah, the prophet speaks of the many miracles performed by God and follows with a promise of an age of new miracles and the directive to \u201cSing to God a new song (42:10).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As I was first reviewing this chapter of Psalms it was close to Yom Kippur and I thought, how apropos of this season. Actually, what I\u2019d been thinking was, how is it that I keep coming to this time of year with the same set of regrets, the same set of promises for how I will improve myself and, yes, many of the same unfulfilled wishes for the coming year. In essence, the same old song. Hours before Yom Kippur I went to do <\/span>tashlich<\/span><\/i> \u2013 the symbolic casting away of our sins from the past year so that we may begin afresh, and what did I encounter within that prayer but this very chapter and verse: sing a new song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radak teaches that we \u201cmust continue to compose new songs of praise at all times.\u201d Many of our sages comment that <\/span>shir chadash<\/span><\/em> \u2013 a new song \u2013 calls us on to realize that new miracles are taking place all the time. It\u2019s not enough to just remember the miracles that have occurred in our personal or national past, we need to recognize the ongoing miracles in the world, anticipate the miracles yet to come, and compose songs of praise for those as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the placement of this verse in the liturgy of our days of repentance also tells us that we have an opportunity at hand to compose a new song for ourselves. The year that\u2019s passed is the old song. Whatever happened is valid, good or bad, and we shouldn\u2019t forget that song, but nor do we need to continue repeating it if it\u2019s not moving us forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now Yom Kippur is in my rear-view mirror, and even though the acceptance or rejection of my repentance has been sealed, I hope it\u2019s not too late to consider what my new song might be.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"A New Song, For Tomorrow","main_caption":"The year that\u2019s passed is the old song. We shouldn\u2019t forget that song, but nor do we need to continue repeating it if we want to move forward","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82417,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333\/revisions\/82417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}