Claude Debussy said, “Music is the silence between the notes.”
Perhaps, but when I think of the absences and the possibilities for expression in Judaism today, I tend more toward an admonition and a musical instruction from another composer, John Cage: “Begin anywhere.”
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“It was a night of watching by the Eternal One, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Eternal One by all the people of Israel, throughout their generations.” (Exodus 12:42)
“See I have made you as a god unto Pharaoh.” (Exodus 7:1)
“They set over them taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdens; and they built for Pharaoh treasure cities: Pithom a
At the end of the book of Genesis the sons of Jacob, for whom Israel’s tribes are named, hear blessings from their father that are not just poetic, but oracular. The patriarch’s expressions are more than mere appreciations – and, in some instances, critiques – of...