QUESTION:
What is a song?
ANSWER:
Every song takes opposite musical notes and sounds and harmonizes them together.
In a marriage, there is the voice of the husband and the wife, the chosson and the kallah, and they are opposites, and when they are not worthy, the sounds do not harmonizes and there is instead the sound of war in their home. But if the husband and wife are worthy, their different voices come together and harmonize into the sound of a melody, a Niggun.
Why is a person pulled after a Niggun? Any person knows what it’s like to be pulled after a sweet melody. What is the secret to this? Simply it’s because a sweet song allows us to leave behind the painful reality of life which is filled with struggles, challenges, oppositions – everyone has their own personal “wars” they are fighting. Sometimes you can walk by a house and you hear sounds of war coming from the house. But when we hear a sweet sounding melody, our soul immediately feels a yearning for all problems to become transformed into a melody, Niggun, a song, a Shirah.
The Torah is called a Shirah, a song: “And write for you this song”, All of Shas is filled with questions and contradictions that the Gemara asks, but when we reach the inner level all of these contradictions are turned into song. The “war of Torah” becomes turned into the Song that is the Torah. It is there that all our souls yearn for. We want all of the wars to become turned into a song.
When a person is at the level of Song, he can feel how there are no wars in the worlds, everything is joy, everything is calm and serene. A song is where we feel that there are no wars in the world. When a person sings a song and connects to the song, he leaves the world of wars and difficulties and opposition and it all becomes turned into one big song.
The root of all the songs in the Torah is the song of Moshe Rabbeinu, Az Yashir, which was sung at a time of war when they were leaving Egypt, when they had been opposed and challenged by Egypt and now that they had won, it all became turned into a song. Not only did it become a song from now on but even the sounds of their pain from Egypt had now turned into sounds of song. Chazal said that Moshe’s song was about the future. That is when all the sounds of pain that we have heard throughout all of history, all of the cries of agony and cries of war, will all join together to become turned into a reality of Song. It will be the joyous sounds of the Chosson and His Kallah [Hashem and the Jewish people]. The sound of the Chosson and Kallah are the sound of those joining together, everything in Creation becoming turned into one sound. This will be the sound of the Shirah, the Song.
The highest level of Shirah that we have ever known of was in the Beis HaMikdash when the Leviim would sing their Shirah. But when Mashiach comes in our times, all the sounds of the world, all of the agonizing sounds of pain that each of us has groaned, all of these cries and groans will become transformed into the Shirah.
This is called the Geulah, in which the entire world becomes transformed into the Song.
In a marriage, there is the voice of the husband and the wife, the chosson and the kallah, and they are opposites, and when they are not worthy, the sounds do not harmonizes and there is instead the sound of war in their home. But if the husband and wife are worthy, their different voices come together and harmonize into the sound of a melody, a Niggun.
Why is a person pulled after a Niggun? Any person knows what it’s like to be pulled after a sweet melody. What is the secret to this? Simply it’s because a sweet song allows us to leave behind the painful reality of life which is filled with struggles, challenges, oppositions – everyone has their own personal “wars” they are fighting. Sometimes you can walk by a house and you hear sounds of war coming from the house. But when we hear a sweet sounding melody, our soul immediately feels a yearning for all problems to become transformed into a melody, Niggun, a song, a Shirah.
The Torah is called a Shirah, a song: “And write for you this song”, All of Shas is filled with questions and contradictions that the Gemara asks, but when we reach the inner level all of these contradictions are turned into song. The “war of Torah” becomes turned into the Song that is the Torah. It is there that all our souls yearn for. We want all of the wars to become turned into a song.
When a person is at the level of Song, he can feel how there are no wars in the worlds, everything is joy, everything is calm and serene. A song is where we feel that there are no wars in the world. When a person sings a song and connects to the song, he leaves the world of wars and difficulties and opposition and it all becomes turned into one big song.
The root of all the songs in the Torah is the song of Moshe Rabbeinu, Az Yashir, which was sung at a time of war when they were leaving Egypt, when they had been opposed and challenged by Egypt and now that they had won, it all became turned into a song. Not only did it become a song from now on but even the sounds of their pain from Egypt had now turned into sounds of song. Chazal said that Moshe’s song was about the future. That is when all the sounds of pain that we have heard throughout all of history, all of the cries of agony and cries of war, will all join together to become turned into a reality of Song. It will be the joyous sounds of the Chosson and His Kallah [Hashem and the Jewish people]. The sound of the Chosson and Kallah are the sound of those joining together, everything in Creation becoming turned into one sound. This will be the sound of the Shirah, the Song.
The highest level of Shirah that we have ever known of was in the Beis HaMikdash when the Leviim would sing their Shirah. But when Mashiach comes in our times, all the sounds of the world, all of the agonizing sounds of pain that each of us has groaned, all of these cries and groans will become transformed into the Shirah.
This is called the Geulah, in which the entire world becomes transformed into the Song.
At The Kumzitz With The Rav In Woodmere Sivan 5783
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