Perek Shira: What Do Animals Do All Day? Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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living beings were corrupt was it their fault why did they need to be destroyed and if they needed to be destroyed so then destroy all of them why does n have to preserve you know two giraffes two elephants two zebras we really need them would the world be different if we didn't have zebras do we need to have giraffes I mean what do you do with giraffes you you use them on a regular basis you did you ever even see one does the world need all these animals you know how about just cows and goats wouldn't that do the job we need all these various species what was the what is the role of uh all of these animals there are literally millions if not billions of species of plant animal fish why are they all necessary if God wanted to destroy them you know what we probably wouldn't have even known the difference do we need all these types of trees there are billions of types of trees there billions of types of plants of insects why do we need all of these creatures what is their role what is their function so what I what I would like to examine today is a little known work which uh maybe 20 years ago most people never even heard of and now it's become very very popular although like most things that are popular people just you know rattle through it like it would be like the of bab or something um or you know like ptim as a fine print in the art scroll that nobody even says everybody every kazin knows you know when we hire a kazin and they want to know what what should I say what do what do they say in your SCH so I always say we don't say any of the fine print you know the fine print we don't say um so there's this work called perak you've probably seen it which is a listing of all aspects of creation the heavens the Sun the moon the stars um the Earth uh oceans rivers Seas animals the whole Animal Kingdom the plant kingdom the fish and each element of creation is ascribed a certain p and and it seems like each element of creation recites a certain P so I was in the park today and I was walking I was doing my route you know up Branch Boulevard into North woodmer Park and I was walking on the trail and above me fly geese and you know it sounded like anybody want to where's aan anybody you know it sounded like quack nah you didn't hear correctly they were saying Pim yeah they were they were saying Pim from from parir you must have missed it but they're actually quacking Pim I mean come on really they quack Pim so you're telling me cows don't say mo dogs when I'm walking on the down the block and there's a German Shepherd he's not actually barking he's actually saying now I know that sound like that but I mean that's what the dog is saying the dog is saying a I mean on what on what frequency is the dog saying that P so what exactly is this parak there is an introductory BR before parak that anyone who is in par in this world will be to learn he'll remember his learning he'll be safe from the gates ofar he won't have he won't go to geham he'll see Mia and he'll get the world to come say that when finished to him he was feeling all proud of himself so Hashem says come on you think nobody Praises me more than you do and Dav H met up with a frog and the Frog said I could praise God better than you can every praise that I give I they're like 3,000 M and the Frog put in his place and parir goes on to say which it's very um that's why I like parir in the opening sentence there's a commercial for thear okay and by the way that's not why those who say it are that's not the reason but it's just a side benefit um the okay we're who wrote perir that deserves a sheer unto itself we're not going to discuss that tonight it's a major topic it's a separate topic by itself who's the author of perir but what we'd like to discuss tonight is do the skies talk you know sometimes you're lying in bed and sudden H what was that what was that this guy was talking you weren't listening what was this guy saying when the dog does the dog actually say do cows talk do snakes talk do chickens talk we know fish could talk there was one in Williamsburg couple years ago no do fish actually talk do these things say these things do they sing what what does perir mean tar what does that mean so the elementary is there's a do you remember the story of tried out every Zina in the world and finally he had an opportunity to frequent uh the the most prestigious zaa and he was about to commit the to act and she blew and she said just like my ear will come out and never return you too you're done you're one and done you're gone you're finish you can never do Chua and he didn't know what to do so he ran between the hills and he said mountains and valleys pray for me they said no pray for you we should pray for ourselves rivers and oceans pray for me now we're not praying for you and instead alai had nothing to do he put his hands between his legs and he expired so the Rah asks what did die he actually asked the mountains to pray for him I guess if Skies could talk and dogs could talk mountains could talk also and apparently they answered they responded to him no we can't pray for you we need to pray for oursel so the ritv says no that's not what the gar means you know what the means it means all of these isal are reporting what was thinking and he said to himself where should I go should I go to the mountains or the sky to pray and then he said to himself no why should I go to them to pray for me they would just say to me if they could talk why should I pray for you I'll pray for myself so obviously it doesn't mean the skies prayed for him it doesn't mean he talked to them it means he was thinking who should I ask he thought if I were to ask the mountains if they could talk this is what they would say of course they can't talk and they didn't say anything says the this is just this is the meaning in all the garas and every time in parak it says the birds say the zebra says the elephant says the lion says what it means is they don't say nothing the LI the elephant doesn't say peanuts it means if he could talk this is what he would say if the lion could talk he would say as follows if the heavens could talk they would say in other words nobody says anything not one entity in paraka says any of the Praises ascribed to them what it means is if they had SE and they could talk this is what they would say okay what's that supposed to mean how do we know what they would say I guess logically if they could talk we were we're choosing to pick for them something that's appropriate that they would probably say something to mankind to help mankind realize the greatness of AES but there that's the first approach to peraka there's another interesting approach do you remember shmu and say for shmu the Philistines took the Arin and they put the Arin on a wagon and the cows were just standing there and all of a sudden the cows started take the Arin and returning the Arin and the PK says and they sang and they sang the cow sang by the way Rashi says this is a very unusual word the word is an andreus you know what that means the words this word in Hebrew every word has a gender this is one of the only words that the word is an an andreus why cuz sha is she sang V is he sang so Rashi says it's like a compound word they walked straight and they sang simultaneously the cows sang cows sing where where do cows sing maybe in uh you know the nursery rhymes cows sing in t singing cows yes singing cows even discusses what song do they sing what do cows sing when they sing they sing about how great it is to jump over the moon no what do cows sing that was a joke right what do cows sing so says one opinion is they sang One opinion is reim says they sing the orphaned chapter of tahim that's not ascribed to any author M rear says they sangem bottom line is there's a time in history that cows sang so one of the classic commentaries on the par theit theit is theim from he says the simple understanding of parak Shir is animals talk animals could talk why not did you learn saas what was the doing no he said hey lady why don't you eat the fruit she spoke to her that's what that's what says the snake smoke spoke and he spoke very sharply and then he pushed her into the tree and he said you see nothing will happen to you and he went back and forth and he if actually if you look in the the snake was a l he he sometimes says Hashem and sometimes him so fine God took away his ability to communicate in intelligible speech but it doesn't mean that he can't communicate and animals can recognize Hashem why can't an animal recognize Hashem so animals retain the ability to sing just like the cows in shmu just like the donkey of bam was actually able to speak intelligibly so animals no longer speak intelligibly but they speak so when you hear let's say um I had in my air conditioner I don't know I thought it was an elephant living in my air conditioner every morning before I got up it was made hak a chinik I don't know what was I thought it was an ostrich a big bird was somebody I don't know what they were doing in there turns out there were like two tiny tiny Robins making the loudest screeches you can imagine no they weren't they weren't screeching they were singing Shira they were ding shakas they were daving kin I wasn't daving kin the birds were daving K they were saying the whole they said they said every word any PE you could imagine they were at it just because we don't understand it they speak saysit why is it far-fetched to say that just because you don't understand what they're saying that they are not singing shires now speak to the as understand something like that by the way the says even more than that look says how did the snake speak to he didn't say the words in thees he hissed but understood the hissing of the snake to us it's unintelligible buta understood what the snake was saying and every living being communicates with some kind of sound and even rocks talk even in adamant objects talk you ever walking in the fire who was that it was the stone it was the rock he's saying oh are you thick like a rock you don't hear me the rock could talk even everything could talk mean the stones said yeah so you see maybe that's the that's the meaning the stones talk they said we want re saying we see Stones say the stones were saying we want the sadic to rest on us everything in this world could talk and say you know what the proof is it says the plants speak the Suns speak speaks the moon speaks the Stars speak understood the Rocks the plants the leaves he understood what they were saying you think the leaves are rustling they're really singing they're singing I don't know what they're singing they usually they sing mostly Tunes they're talking they're singing they're singing that's why God gave them speech say for what so that's another approach the learns you know a is if they could talk this is what they would say no says no that's not this is what they're saying they're talking your sneakers are talking to you your shoes are talking to you you got yourself a borolin it's made out of a rabbit he's talking to you it's hard to it's a good thing we don't hear everything that they say because they would give us a piece of they are giving us a piece of their mind but okay lo and behold kki wrote a pis on per and he quotes the question of rabab and R says he doesn't buy this idea that things talk I don't hear anything they're not saying anything the rocks are not talking the leaves are not talking the trees are not talking the sun is not talking and say don't take my word for it says what is the egg referred to that sings it can't be that it's referring to the Egg of an ostrich cuz eggs don't talk why not I thought eggs could talk doesn't par don't we see from parir that everything in creation talks says rakov quot by kki in his introduction to parir things are not talking they're not communicating they're not singing they're not making noise they're just sitting there like a rock they're they're silent Like a Rock so then what exactly is parir so we have to go to approach three and four approach number three you probably heard of and that is everything in this world has a ministering Angel your sports team has an angel some teams apparently have better Angels than others some teams doesn't matter they'll get the number one pick every single year they will always be bad they don't have a good Malik some teams they have good Mal they have strong Mal rocks have Mal I know I don't know what sports are I don't somebody told me don't worry okay I don't really know I'm just I'm just repeating over what somebody told rocks have Mal benches have everything in this world has an every leaf has an angel say ma um there's no blade of grass that it's ministering Angel doesn't hit it from above every blade of grass has an angel when we say the sky says the moon says the trees say the elephant says the lion says the lion don't say nothing the angel of the lion says the Shir that's what it means that's what they're the spiritual commensurate force in heaven that is assigned to that physical entity okay that is what is said in number 10 the of Rua so in your front lawn you have 5050 million Blades of grass each one has an angel each Angel is singing a song okay but let's get deeper into that was known as the PES he was a student of a student of the V and he explains why does the angel need to sing so he explains as follows every physical entity has a spiritual counterpart in heaven that spiritual counterpart is what is the medium which endows the physical element with its sustenance so every braid of blade of grass for it to have Vitality its Angel has to shower down on it Vitality how does the angel shower down on it Vitality only by singing Shir so the Ang Angel sings by the angel singing it's able to infuse its physical counterpart with existence so every Rock has an angel the angel sings it infuses the rock with energy there's a Mal for the sun the sun sings it infuses the sun with energy there's a Malik of the Moon there's a Malik of the ocean there's a Malik so everything begins in the heaven the Angels Sing Shir and that infuses the physical counterpart with its sustenance if you look in the in number 12 T he says what is perir what's the concept that it's recommended to recite perak he says everything created in the world has an angel even every blade of GL grass and through that angel it endows sustenance and vitality to the physical entity and the way it does that is by singing Shira if it doesn't sing Shir then the thing cannot exist now is it possible we know in the times of the Mable not only were the animals corrupt the Angels came down from heaven and they be became corrupt now if the angels that represent the physical counterpart become corrupt then what hope is there for the physical counterpart what hope is there for the animal if the zebra in heaven is is uh not doing the right thing if the angel in shamayim is uh is not fulfilling its Mission then what could you expect from its physical counterpart now question is why do we need to say perir in other words I understand the Mal perir says like this the zebra says you know X Y and Z so what does that mean the spiritual Angel of the zebra sings a song and that infuses the physical zebra with sustenance so what what I what do I got to do with it why do I have to have the book per do I have to say anything so says like this why do say anyone who says per will be to so many things you ready for this concept we know that God is the source of sustenance of everything in this world but Man was created in the image of Hashem everything in the upper world is dependent on God's existence everything in the lower world is dependent on man because man is the image of the Creator so through man's activities everything in this world is blessed by knowing and saying the song of everything in creation man will then cause everything in creation to be blessed so what exactly does that mean comes in and he says something out of this world did you ever hear the idea we say what's the idea say cannot sing any song until clo first sing Shir down here in this world says the Angels who sanctify God you know what Angels do all day some angels say and then they repeat and then they repeat and then they repeat and then they repeat and that's what they do their entire existence say and then they repeat and then they repeat and then they repeat and that's all they do in their entire existence however they're not allowed to utter one word until first CL sing Shir if there would be a moment where CLA is silenced the Angels would cease talking in fact the says when stop the Angels stop flapping their wings when we are quiet and we don't praise Hashem the wings of the angels rest because the kadus that is recited by the malim is through their waving their wings and they're only allowed and authorized to do so when we praise hem when says then and only then could they praise if they if CL does not sing sh they're not to say one word says not because we're greater than them no they're not granting us honor but the idea of singing is basically connecting the various and the angels have no idea how to do that they need us to do that and then they could chime in ah so you ready for this that says the is what perak is so you ready what it comes out first CLA recites all the various Praises of everything in creation we say what the sun says we say what the moon says we say what the Stars say we say what the elephants say we say what the lion say we say what the Tigers say oh once we sing Shir now the the zebra Angel and the Elephant Angel and the tiger Angel and the sun angel and the moon Angel and the star Angel then they get cracken they can't do anything until we start once they get cracking then they give sustenance to the sun and the moon and the stars and the sky so basically the cycle begins with KRA it Powers the Angelic forces that power all the physical entities down here that's how the world operates that's the suula of paraka now if a guy after daving rattles through what does that accomplished nothing you have to understand what you're doing if you don't understand by the way that's all these things if you're if you're zipping through things after daving close them and learn something you don't get anything out of zipping through anything these are not like because I zip through it if you don't understand it it ain't going to do too much it's better than speaking lashara yeah and it's better than doing nothing but anything to have power you have to understand what you're doing so it says the power of per is that by CLA is saying the various songs of all aspects of creation it empowers the Angels the Angels then give sustenance to all the physical counterparts so this is approach number three this is what how ryak understands the perir this is how kki in quoting Rak understands the parir that basically these are not what the animals say this is what the angels that represent the animals say and we just added they could only say it once we we started and get them cracking okay but then R kki says he prefers a different approach in understanding parir now R kki said he heard and had a lot of saw he said he heard there many commentaries on per and there are you know the wrote A Commentary to par and that's one say for I don't know I don't have it I couldn't find it and I have all the I couldn't find it it's called K I have K on not there are many there's a there are many many said I heard there many I never saw any of them except for rak's commentary on parir and even that commentary he says I did not learn and I don't I prefer says to come up with my own approach because I Rak explains iTab and I would like to explain it more on a simple uh way and that is the fourth approach that we're about to learn so so far the ritv learns parak nobody saying anything but if they could talk this is what they would say or the approach of the animals talk animals talk when they say quack quack when a cow says Mo he's saying when a duck quacks no you're the quack he's actually saying real the animals are talking you don't understand them the third approach it's referring to the the angel that represents them but we added based on we have to start the we have to get it rolling comes thear thear says look at number 14 you us from the animals of the earth and from the birds of the heaven you have made us wise this is a female mule when she urinates she crouches in a very modest way and the chicken before it has relations it's MAF its partner and said had the Torah not been given we would have learned modesty from a cat a cat will not defecate in public and if and when it does it covers it up and we would have learned not to steal from an ant and we would have learned modesty from a dove and we would have learned Dar from a chicken Sam Mar says really it's didn't know chickens learn they were they go to a b and they learn how does the mule know these this female mule has better mid than other people that you might meet how do these animals know these good behaviors and there are teachers they're supposed to teach us things Samar says no they don't have any free choice they never they don't practice these good practices out of morality or good behavior this is how they were created but this is just how they are and we who are given God G given SE are supposed to learn from these animals so actually the earliest approach to understanding perir is offered by the sa and he says like this man is is much greater than the animals so really if you look at perir they're like does anybody know how many entries there are in perir between 65 and 70 that means there between 65 and 70 things that we need to learn from animals from Bugs so one second I'm supposed to so the bug is my rashash Shiva so pal who's your rebi H I haven't spoken to any Rabbi since fifth grade I don't know I guess um a roach you know who who who's your teacher I a butterfly a cat a dog who who's your Rabbi H I don't know I sell my K online I don't I don't have a rabbi uh no perir so you're supposed to um really consider animals your teacher your rebi so the seim says like this he says every animal was created with a certain personality and character trait and many of them have very Noble practices that you are meant to observe and to learn from and human being was given SE that a human being could see a dog and the dog is vicious it's screaming it's barking it's annoying and you know what a human being should take from a dog like my father says um what's the difference between a human being and a dog difference is a dog if you bring him into your home and you give him food and you give him love won't bite you that's the difference between a human being and a dog right the dogs have loyalty a human being has a to look at a dog and to say from a dog I'm going to learn that if somebody does something good to me I'm not going to bite his head off that's what the dog says does the dog say that no does a dog talk no when a dog is barking is it saying no says when the dog's barking it's really saying you know with the Trum no says no he doesn't buy that the dog's not talking he's not barking the dog says nothing but a human being was given the SE to be able to learn a good quality from a dog was able to learn a good quality from a cat was able to learn a good so you know what perak Shira is it's basically a laundry list of all the good qualities of the animals that man needs to look at the animal and say from the sky I could learn the greatness of the Creator who's moving the Sun how does this big Fireball that nobody could even get within a a million miles of who's moving it so from this the sun doesn't talk look at number 18 into H the heavens say the glory of God really they talk the speaks really the sky speak every day they bring expression of Praise And every night they speak wisdom so says no just kidding there no words nothing is said you don't hear their voice says Rashi look turn it over Rashi says himself is explaining they don't talk by the sun and the moon going throughout the world and Illuminating to Creation through the Sun and the Moon the sun and the moon cause people to speak they don't say nothing but through their movements mankind recognizes Hashem and man speaks so says Al the purpose of parir is to study the personality and the characteristics of everything in creation to glean what can we learn from them about the greatness of the Creator or about good qualities or good person personality and then from that we will praise Hashem so from a dog you're supposed to learn loyalty you know what's the most important quality in marriage what's the most important thing in marriage what does marriage mean it means loyalty it says cling to your wife what does that mean it means be loyal to her arpa kisses Russ I'm I'm sorry arpa kisses Nai and she abandons her Rus doesn't kiss her R is loyal to her so you see what marriage is and what it's not Dak means to be loyal who do you learn loyalty from a dog so you're walking down the street and you see a dog you need to look at it and say from this dog I learn I have to be loyal to God he created me he feeds me he gives me everything I have so I need to conduct myself in a way to show him appreciation and loyalty that's what I learned from the dog if you walk by a dog and you think nothing then you blew it you're you're staggering creation cuz as we're going to see you need to sing to cause the angel to sing to give the dog life so if you walk by the dog and you think nothing you're killing the dog we're going to call pet on you no I'm not going to but somebody else might if you see the Sun and you don't recognize what I need to learn from the Sun that there is a creator then a you're you blew it B you're silencing the angel and C you're ruining the Sun so right now we have by the way the r did you know chapter 148 of what are you doing you're telling the son to praise Hashem hey son excuse me stop shy stop be quiet for a second and go praise you know the raham says that's the raham says that's not what you're doing you're not actually doing that the what it means is you look at is saying to the Earth and to the sea creatures and to the deep and to the fire he's saying look at these things and we Man by looking at at the sun we praise hasem means son we're looking at you to realize the greatness of the Creator so we could praise you what we need to learn from creation is the personality and the good qualities of what creation teaches us and therefore perir is not the song of the dog it's the song the dog teaches us to sing okay so com and he says the biggest you ever heard kki says so we have two possible approaches to parir he doesn't even bring in the ritv the rvah again learns what's parir nobody says anything if they could talk this is what they would say then we have the approach of the Andes yeah they talk then Rak gives two approaches approach number one is it's the angels that represent these uh Force these physical entities they're the ones singing the Shir and obviously by us singing it activates them by the way there's a a p onir called KF Ranon who follows in the path of the who brings this fourth shot so again number three is the angels are singing the malim are singing the Angels Sing The the angel of the sun sings the song of the Sun the angel of the Moon sings the song of the Moon the angel of the zebra sings the song of the zebra and then approach number four is no when we look at a dog when we look at a zebra we need to figure out what characteristic about God or about good behavior can I learn from it and sing that song comes kki he wrote one paragraph introduction to parir he says these two per of of are the exact same thing the that the Angels Sing and theat that we have to look at creation by the way you know what it means the says you know what thear will sometimes use the Expression what is zo means in thear means this proves this proves so to in par the sun says now the sun doesn't actually say it the sun proves there's a Creator the dog doesn't actually say let's be loyal to God the dog proves that we need to have loyalty to God nobody's saying anything could mean this proves saysi the approach cabalistic approach that it's the angel talking and the approach that it's through these enti we sing the it's the same approach I'll read to you his words he says Ms both are true they are the exact same approach huh now what what are we supposed to do now how are they the same approach they could not be more disparate and different one approach is cabalistic that this is the song of the angels that represent the son the moon and the elephant and the zebra and one is this these are the lessons about Hashem and about good behavior that they teach us and I believe the answer is what the ne says first we need to follow the simple approach simple approach is you need to look at a dog and say the dog demonstrates the value of loyalty you need to look at the lion and say the Li shows inner strength that I could be sitting in a shol and the guy on my right and the guy on my left are doing the wrong thing and I could do the right thing now the right thing is not to be there to find a place where the guy on the right and the left are doing the right thing you could have Inner Strength you know what you learned from a lion that you could be lying in bed in the morning tired and you just get up that's what you could that's what the lion shows that's the first dimension of look at there's a lion in this world the lion demonstrates inner strength from Inner Strength I learned the great Mida of gur Ah that's number one number two is then the angel representing the lion he's able to say oh man sang Shir now I could sing Shir once the angel of the lion sing Shir God gives sustenance to the lion so the simple and the cabalistic are working together they're not different per like we explained earlier this is exactly what the says that in any for anything to happen up in shamayim the Angels can't say one word until we first speak so we speak we talk we sing We so to speak utilize the elementary approach of per which is identify what creation teaches us you know what you learned from Iraq rocks are very consistent you know some people they have good days they have bad days sometimes they're on fire sometimes they're in a l rocks are very consistent you know what you learn from the Sun and the Moon they rise and they set they don't take vacations they don't take off they do the same exact thing every day that's a lesson you learn from creation once you're able to identify the admirable quality of each sing of creation that's your song that corresponds to that aspect of creation that activates the song of the angels on high and then God sends nourishment to that uh physical entity in the times of n not only were the animals corrupt the Angels were corrupt that's what we saw at the end of barus for you know they came down from heaven already and they started doing the wrong thing and right after that it didn't take long once there the spiritual counterpart was acting inappropriately the physical counterpart followed suit so Hashem had to destroy the whole Animal Kingdom so you'll ask so just destroy them what do we need them for H we need them we need them there's a lot we learn from them in fact every single entity every every every I every single creation has a particular liod and the parak is so to speak the uh the index of what we should be taking from each aspect of creation one last idea you know there's a a special inion on chabas to sing you know we we sing on chabas we sing zir on chabas we sing sing in chabas you know we have Nim for the VAR in sanedrin says why why do we sing on chabas you know we have extra in the so basically the angels have six wings each Wing is for a different day of the week come shabas who's going to sing Shir so hasem says don't worry we have no more Wings left God says don't worry there's one more Wing CL Isel that's what it means on shabas you got to pick up the slack you're sitting at your shabas table you sound like the frog that was talking to D you are your tone death I I don't care you need to sing it doesn't matter what it sounds like it's part of chabas you need to sing in sh you got to sing along with yourin don't no I like to go to Minion they start 9:00 they finish 9:14 the whole thing Shak laning and mus you got to sing it's okay nothing will happen to you if you sing you'll see you'll enjoy it shabas is dedicated for zmer now why is zmer called a knf why is Shir called a knf says AR the purpose of a z the purpose of Shir is just like a kof what's the purpose of a wing a wing you you will flap it and it elevates you to the higher level the purpose of Shir is to elevate something CLA when they sing Shir and chabas they elevate the whole Bria let's explain you see you have a dog you have this guy he's walking his dog what's he do what's the dog the dog is a vicious ferocious pet Annoying It's a physical entity a Jew could look at the dog and see this dog teaches the world loyalty to the Creator he then transforms the dog from a four-legged Critter unto something holy a Jew could look at the sun the sun is just a bowl of fire the Jew could see in the Sun the glory of the Creator the Jew could look at an elephant a lion water and every single aspect of this beautiful world see the lesson or the greatness of I in that item from perir it injects a it us utilizes a k it elevates every single aspect of creation from a physical entity to a spiritual entity to something that we learn from to AR hopefully you have actual Rim hopefully there are rabim that you've spoken to since sixth grade hopefully there are people you ask questions to on a regular basis but besides that there are lessons to be learned learned from every single aspect of creation so CL we sing Shir what does it mean we sing Shir we give Shir to the whole creation by the way what does Adam say in parak sharish gathered all of creation and adish says these are the words we start off Friday night you know what the sh of Adam is the of is we turn to the sun we turn to the Moon we turn to the ocean we turn to the dogs we turn to the Lions and we say come let us sing to hasem what does that mean we're all going to be singing together we're going to be singing dogs going to be barking the bird's going to be chirping it's not going to sound too good what does it mean let's all singem it means man recognizes the admirable and Noble aspects of all creation and by doing so he elevates all of creation from a physical entity to something spiritual that is the sh of man okay was a good opening for and I wish everybody and a wonderful night we're going here come