Holy power of word and vibration

I often think about the studies we had with the Chevra around power and magic of word. We have learned before that G’d created this World with the words, but in our class we also learned that each one of us has a power of creating and destroying our own world using “magic” of words. Every one of you probably experienced your world destroyed by ugly, cruel words spoken carelessly by someone who is/was important in your life. All of us were uplifted by inspirational words of great, enlightened souls, and by just simple, kind words offered to us by our friends or just by-passers. Personally I know these were not by-passers at all, it was Elijah, but I digress.

In a spirit of “The Evolution meets Tradition”, motto articulated to me by Maggid Shir’az, I would like to pose a question – What is a word? from a perspective of the world of matter.

word �� (w�rd) KEY �
NOUN:

1. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.

and then Sound?

sound ¹ �� (sound) KEY �
NOUN:

1. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
2. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
3. The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.

Now we are up to something – Sound, Vibration. Modern physics teaches us that all known matter is a vibration, and that includes the matter of my body. So when the sounds of a right music combine with a sounds of right words and resonate with vibration of my body, it can create a magic phenomena of harmonic resonance, and these words just give me chills:

There’s a blaze of light in every word.
It doesn’t matter which you heard.
The holy or the broken Hallelujah.

I did my best, it wasn’t much.
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch.
I told the truth. I didn’t come to fool ya.
And even though it all went wrong,
I’ll stand before the lord of song
with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

Now try them with the music – The video.

 

Jewish cyber-community is here

Reb Avram shared this with us this article from Jerusalem Post. Michal Lando, JP NYC correspondent writes:

More US Jews today are "uncoupled" in two senses of the term -unmarried and unconnected to organized Jewry – according to the latest study by researchers Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman, who call this data "disturbing," though not for the reasons one might expect.

In 1990, 33 percent of non-Orthodox Jews aged 25-39 were single. By 2000-01, the number had grown to 50%. In fact "never in Jewish demographic history have we seen so many young adults unmarried, or ‘uncoupled,’" the study says. That in itself is not surprising, because Americans as a whole are getting married much later.

The good news is that single Jews are as interested as ever in connecting Jewishly. The bad news is that they shy away from available Jewish institutions in part because synagogues, Jewish community centers and federations "remain geared to the conventional family unit," the study claims.

As many as 67 percent of non-Orthodox singles say they are "proud to be a Jew," slightly surpassing the 66% of in-married (Jews married to Jews) who agree.

Given the high level of Jewish interest and low rate of communal and ritual involvement among young adult, single Jews, this uncoupled population represents the "greatest opportunity and the greatest risk" of Judaism in the United States, the study claims. "Single Jews are akin to ’swing voters’- they can go either way," the two sociologists suggest. "How they ‘vote,’ how they make Jewish (or non-Jewish) choices, will determine the future of Jews, Judaism and Jewishness in the United States."

One of the quintessential things of being Jewish is to continue study of the Holy Texts, and we would like to invite everyone who is “thirsty” to join us here at Wisdom Heart in doing so. I just left an invitation at the Comments section of the JP on line.