WELLBEING → TOUCH BASE Issue 821 · July 29, 2020

Hitting the High Notes

The music we listen to and the songs we sing tell us a great deal about ourselves

Hitting the High Notes

 

Feeling That Song

The fellow wandered into an Aish HaTorah Essentials class years ago. “Rabbi” he called out to the famed Rav Motty Berger, “I’ll stay if you can show me my soul.”

“You listen to music?” rejoined Rabbi Berger. “There’s your soul!”

“What I didn’t know at the time,” recounted Rabbi Berger later, “was that this guy was obsessed with music and had spent hours every day lying on the lawn with two massive speakers adjacent to his ears. He stayed.”

The world is becoming increasingly cynical and doubting, but one way to demonstrate the realness of spirituality is through the power of music.

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