{"id":87499,"date":"2021-01-25T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=87499"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:07:39","slug":"a-call-to-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-call-to-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call To Sing"},"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":"87499","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"662","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Creating an attitude of gratitude\u00a0\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The words that open the Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat service come from Psalm 95. As Jews step away from the work week and the preoccupation of our minds with the necessities of material pursuits, we turn to this Psalm that exhorts us, \u201cCome, let us sing to God, greet Him with thanksgiving. For in His power are the hidden mysteries of earth\u201d (95: 1- 4). The section continues, \u201cCome let us prostrate ourselves and bow, let us kneel before God\u201d (95:6).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radak describes prostration as completely stretching oneself out on the ground, while bowing involves the head and upper body, and kneeling is with the lower body. Surely, asks Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, the order of this verse seems pragmatically backward. One cannot prostrate oneself until one has first bowed and then kneeled. So, Hirsch understands the reference to prostration to be figurative rather than literal. Prostration, says Hirsch, is an attitude that needs to precede an action. Radak further comments that this psalm is forward-looking \u2013 to the Messianic time when we will have a level of understanding of God that we can\u2019t even imagine today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This idea of a progressive, continuous path to bringing in Shabbat, and preparing ourselves for Messianic times gives us a blueprint of sorts to personal growth and drawing ever closer to God. Start somewhere \u2013 sing to God, say thank you \u2013 how hard can that be? The more we do so, the more we develop an attitude that allows us to acknowledge God\u2019s power and His connectedness to us. The more we do that, the deeper will be our understanding and appreciation of God\u2019s power. The deeper our understanding, the more naturally we will kneel before Him, and readily sing His praises. And around again in a spiral drawing us closer to the center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each recitation of this psalm on <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">erev Shabbat<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and each Shabbat that we experience a hint of the Messianic days to come, draws us progressively closer to God, and to the time when, as Radak says \u201cwe will praise the Almighty for the wonders He wrought during the epoch of Messianic redemption.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it starts with a call to sing.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73118,"id":73118,"title":"ez3-choir","filename":"ez3-choir-1.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-choir-1.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-angels-raucous-praise\/ez3-choir\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez3-choir","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73116,"date":"2020-04-08 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