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The Day The Music Died - Sukkot
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Music has a tremendous power - for the good or the bad. It all depends on the soul of the composer and the musician.
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in the 1960s it seemed to many of us
that a new idealism was sweeping the
world
there was something in the air
a whole generation was finding its
cultural feat through a revolution in
music
the simple acoustic guitar was
electrified and transformed into a
juggernaut that could outblast the
largest symphony orchestra there was a
feeling that all you need is love
and with a little help from my friends
the times would be a-changing
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however there came a day the music died
the purple haze turned into a nightmare
that ruined thousands maybe hundreds of
thousands of lives
when the basa mikdos the holy temple was
standing
an event of great joy took place during
the festival of sukkot
with great ceremony and rejoicing water
would be drawn up from the gihon spring
south of the temple mount brought up to
the holy temple and poured onto the holy
altar
on a deeper level what was drawn up
through this celebration with
spirituality from the depths of being
the nature of true spirituality is
always to connect the wellsprings of the
soul to the source of all
the talmud tells that if you never
experienced the joy of this simchas
basashwava you had no idea what real joy
was at night the water drawing ceremony
was accompanied by music and dancing of
incomparable joy massive candelabra
taller than a house shone out into the
night there was not a courtyard in
yerushalayim that was not bathed in its
light
and they danced
and they danced and who was it the dance
the ordinary people the young no
the greatest torah ages the talmidhammen
were the ones that danced for it was
they only they who were certain to
harness this tremendous excitement and
power and direct it to the service of
god
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the chapter of the talmud which
describes this celebration is
the flute
the word khalil is related to khalal
which means an empty space
for the sound of the flute comes from
the empty space the column of air inside
the instrument but the word khalil is
also connected to another word in hebrew
which means desecration
that empty space that column of air is
like a blank sound canvas on which the
sounds of holiness of the greatest simha
of joy can be painted
but that halal can also generate a music
that can be a spiritual drainpipe into
which thousands of lives can vanish
music has a tremendous power
to a great extent it depends on the soul
of the player and the composer whether
that power is negative or uplifting
music isn't always a stairway to heaven
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