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MP3 Danny Raphael - Pesach: Song of Creation (feat. Rachel Rose Reid & Sephirot)
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Friends, I''d forgotten what "enthusiam" means...I looked it up, and I found this: "absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest"
And also: "any of various forms of extreme religious devotion, usually associated with intense emotionalism and a break with orthodoxy."
And, even more excitingly: "Origin: possession by a god" [now you''re talking!]
In the Torah, Pesach is called "The Festival of Spring", as in the season, and ALSO "a spring in our step" - this might seem trivial at first but it''s quite profound - bear with me...
The slaves leave Egypt in a big hurry, not because the Divine plan was a bit rough around the edges, but because an essential part of the plan, and of the experience, is to be in a big, fat, rush - such a rush that the dough couldn''t rise, hence the matza''s that we eat...here is the rub: the Exodus is an episode of impeccably planned hastiness...
Just so Pesach as a whole - our whole calendar is designed to ensure that this festival falls when baby lambs are born, the trees are full of blossom and people are full of amorous desire (Enthusiasm? what better example...) - Spring madness...
These things are very much connected. On Pesach, we read the Song of Songs, aka the Song of Solomon, full of blossoming trees, skipping/springing animals and human love.
As Adin Steinsaltz explains, the Song of Songs is simultaneously:
1) a personal song, between a woman and her lover
2) a song of the relationship between our people and Hashem
3) a song between the human soul and its Creator
4) a song between all Creation and its Source
These 4 songs flow into each other and nourish each other, like the spiraling
cycles of fertility, water, oxygen, nitrogen, Carbon, sun, moon and earth around
us, which create the music of life.
Like the Song of Songs, the Song of the Universe has no perceptible beginning
or end, and consists of both movement and stillness, giving and receiving, ebbing
and flowing.
But what has this got to do with Pesach? We often grow up learning that Pesach was all about big, scary, plagues, Charlton Heston''s chest and so forth, but the Oral Torah has a rather different perspective:
"In the merit of righteous women of the generation, our ancestors were redeemed from Egypt." (Sotah 11b)
The women? They didn''t bring any plagues! What are the rabbis talking about?
What, indeed! This should make it quite clear:
"When Israel was in harsh labor in Egypt, Pharaoh decreed that the men must not sleep in their homes, so that they would not engage in sexual relations with their wives. Rabbi Shimon bar Halafta said: What did the daughters of Israel do? They went down to draw water from the Nile and God would bring little fish into their buckets. They cooked some fish and sold the rest, buying wine with the proceeds. Then they went out to the fields and fed their husbands. After eating and drinking, the women would take bronze mirrors and look at them with their husbands. The wife would say “I’m prettier than you,” and the husband would reply, “I’m more beautiful than you.” Thus they would arouse themselves to desire and they would then “be fruitful and multiply,” and God took note of them immediately. (Midrash Tanchuma; Pikudei 9)
And now to connect the dots - according to the ''Sfat Emet'', we sing the Song of Songs on Pesach because its subject is a "necessary love" - and here (in the above text) lies that most necessary love, embodied in human enthusiasm...
So on Pesach, when we sit at our Seder tables and re-live the Exodus, we are privileged to a glimpse of profound freedom, not merely the absence of slavery, but true freedom – a state where everything is in tune with this necessary love.
And so, we sing the Song of Songs, to re-learn how to hear this song, to attune
ourselves to the love necessarily underlying all life.
As Rav Kook teaches, therein lies the intertwined ''Fourfold Song'' of our own potential, of our people, of all humanity, and of all Being.
If we listen, we might, as the Sfat Emet puts it, "wake up to the song in all creations".
With love
Daniel
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