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Do Frogs Sing? A Daily Dose of Perek Shirah

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So I was at the um Agua has a pre-conference a mental health conference and I was there and a doctor I'm not sure he's a doctor mayor Aten deals in in mental health. So as a joke he says okay what are you working on next Rabbi Sat he was enjoying the bal he says what's next I said actually I'm involved in perhaped to four great shirim on per shir on from Rabbi Daniel Gladstein so wow that's I I didn't know that and he shared with me something I said great there's there's there's a you know shortage of uh good uh information so I called by Gladstein up and I had an idea I said you know Gladstein I heard that you wrote this this commentary why don't you write a forward for the book and he said glad deadly and he took those shirim that he had done worked them through and that was one of the things that he's discussing is this question. >> Is it that the frog actually sings a song and if you understood frog language you would understand it. Is it that the frog's angel in the shamayim sings the song or does it mean there's really no song at all? It's like a shamay is supreme the clouds the the heavens talk. Means when I look at the heavens and I see the wonders of the heavens that's the way they talk. You don't hear them, but they're going through their mission and doing what they're supposed to. That's their song. The sun's song is that it comes up in the morning and goes down at night and it's showing its precision and how God created it. That's its song. So, there's basically three approaches to what the song is create of creations are. Fascinating. But there is an opinion that when you hear the frog croaking or you hear the cow mooing, they're singing Shira. >> Yes. That's really comforting because at 5:30 in the morning when I heard the rooster crowing, had I thought to myself, "Ah, he's singing shir toem it would have been less annoying."