{"id":84813,"date":"2020-12-13T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T15:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=84813"},"modified":"2020-12-13T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T15:14:55","slug":"trusting-our-silence-to-enrich-our-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/trusting-our-silence-to-enrich-our-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Trusting Our Silence To Enrich Our Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"84813","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"632","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Music is the silence between the notes\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Words are important in Tanach. God created the world with words, gave us the 10 Commandments with words, spoke to our prophets who relayed God\u2019s words, and King David wrote some of Jewish liturgy\u2019s most moving words. And yet in this chapter David presents a song, the lyrics of which include an exaltation of silence. \u201cSilence is praise to You\u201d says David in\u00a0 verse 2. Many sages explain that words alone are inadequate to express our relationship with God, and sometimes mere words can even detract from the depth of emotion we are trying to express. Rashi tells us that any attempt to verbalize praise of God implies a finite quality to Godliness. Silence, on the other hand, says Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz \u201cincludes all that can and cannot be verbalized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David spent long swaths of time on the run from his enemies. Silence for David, at least in those times, was the norm, and so presumably he had become accustomed to it and perhaps even adept at leveraging it in his praise of God. Today we have become so accustomed to the noise of the world that we are uncomfortable with silence. The \u201cpregnant pauses\u201d in conversation leave us fidgety, needing to fill in some noise. When we find ourselves alone, we often invite in the noise, from music, talk radio, television, a phone call. And if not that, we look for something active to fill the silent void: we pick up a book or turn to a hobby. We busy ourselves in an attempt to quiet our minds. Rarely do we allow our silence into the forefront.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Dov Ber Pinson, a proponent of meditation, suggests that our need for noise, and discomfort with silence comes from a fear of being alone with our own thoughts. David had no fear of his own thoughts and trusted his own silence as a vehicle for self-expression and praise of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Composer Claude Debussy said, \u201cMusic is the silence between the notes.\u201d Just as musical silences enhance what was just experienced and heighten our anticipation of what is to come, so too does the insertion of a silent pause deepen the impact of a great speech.\u00a0 Even more so do our silent prayers, the things in our heart that we are sure God must know, enrich the prayers and praises we 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