Parsha Perspectives for Today (Ha'azinu, 5781) - The Song of Our Lives

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

a song if you actually look at the way it's even laid out in the arts it's on page 1100 1100 and if you look at the way it's laid out you see that it's two columns it actually appears as poetry it's a song the text reads very unusual different than what we're used to ordinarily reading in the parasha in the torah it reads like poetry it reads like a song it should be put to music very very poetic words the um the the text itself really jumps off the page it's very really jumps off the page it's very significant to us now it's very interesting the gemaran rosh hashanah entertain something that we don't do we hear azinu once a year one shabbos a year we read azinu we actually hear maybe more often than other partios because not only do we read it the monday and thursday before but depending on the way that rosh hashanah falls you could read it several mondays or thursdays are shabbos depending on how the calendar is is arranged but in the time of the gemara the gemara records and again the gemara entertains the possibility that hazina entertains the possibility that hazina was not only read one shabbos every year but was in fact read every shabbos why the gemara there delineates the sheer shoyom the songs that would accompany different carbanas different sacrifices tells us the power of song you know the as many people have stuff suffered and struggled in this pandemic the thought that we would have to entertain rosh hashanah yom kippur without being able to sing sing is what opens up the heart so it opens up the soul song is what moves us transports us

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