Have you ever tried to read the same article every day? Believe me even the best written and most profound combination of words will bore you if you read it every day for many years.
So what were the “members of the great assembly” thinking when they instituted a liturgy for prayer to be read and reread three times a day?
The answer may be found in the name of the first part of the morning prayers. The name the sages chose for a section of psalms proclaiming the greatness of G-d is “Verses of Song”.
Now a song is very different. You can sing the same song you sang yesterday and still enjoy it today. Somehow the song stirs your soul every time you sing it as if you never heard it before. It touches you in a way that is deeper then words. when you tune in to that part of your soul there is an unlimited amount of inspiration.
Every time you raise your voice in song you allow your soul to express itself, and your soul never gets bored of the mundane, it never gets tired of living the moment. We get tired and bored when we don’t let the soul express it’s natural energy and life.
So next time I will pray, I will think of it as a song. I will allow my soul to sing, and express itself, to do what it wants to do most. As we say in the prayer “therefore my soul shall sing to you, and not be silent. L-rd my G-d I will praise you forever”.
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Beautiful.
An interesting thought. I love music but eventually get bored of hearing/singing even the same song again and again!
I guess - to keep it fresh - you have to try and look at it against the backdrop of your life and development which is constantly changing?
Hi Moshe,
Good to hear from you!
You get bored of the song when it becomes mechanical. If you close your eyes, sing and put yourself into it, it will move you.
(OH by the way that may be part of the problem some of us want to be left alone).
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