A Lesson In How To Sing A Blessing
Jul 16th, 2009 by Rabbi Simcha Weinberg in Prayer, Spiritual Growth
Feeling Loved
I took that feeling of having someone care so much for me, love me and think of me and incorporated it in my morning blessings. God loves me enough to give me the gift of His directions in life – Mitzvot. God gave me a multi-level soul, and a Torah with which to access all levels. God gave me brains to draw distinctions, and ears to hear and, if I so choose, listen. He gave me eyes, clothes, a, somewhat, functioning spine. I have feet and shoes. I am alive and awake.
I was flying with joy and the feeling of loving the fact that Someone, besides my wife, constantly cares for me.
It wasn’t just a cake: It was a lesson in how to Sing a Blessing!
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W-O-W there is so much to learn about attitude in this… I think we humans take way to many things for granted, and often just miss the good things that are right in front of our eyes.
I have been gaining awareness of reality through my own hard work and the learning of Derech Hashem by the Ramchal. I want to say that as some who’s had a “not so good at all” life growing up, there is so much beauty, inner peace, happiness and satisfaction to be achieved/experiance in life, if we can just learn to see the truth in front of us. so really, do we create our own misery? I mean besides the emotional pain that is very valid, but how much of it is really just our lack of awareness?
we do so many things in life, why is it so hard to do the things that make us better and remind us of the truth, like incorporating a feeling of love into our prayer? is it because if it were easy, we wouldn’t be earning it?
This is a clear example of how to take an every-day life experience (although Debbie’s cakes are far from ordinary!) and use it to enhance one’s Davening. We all encounter a multitude of situations which elicit different feelings. Sometimes, the feelings are very strong and fill us, lift us… and then what? What happens to all this energy, to all the intensity- where does it all go? Does it simply dissipate, does it get lost? I have always wondered and contemplated the waste of all the emotions that we experience and then just let fade away. Of course, they can remain as some distant, diluted memory. But to capture them in their entirety, with their colors still sharp, one can only chanel them ito an expression of something greater. And what better way than the one you describe so beautifully; to translate one’s feelings into a song to our Creator!
I am so excited to post this “flash” as Rav Moshe Stepansky, quoting Reb Shlomo Carlebach ztllh’h would call it!
The experience you described, what you experienced, is not just something that “could” occur within life and happened, but rather you tuned into something that is *BUILT INTO CREATION ITSELF!*
How so?
According to our sages, Creation was effected through the Asarah Ma’amarot, the Ten Utterances. These are identified in the opening verses of Genesis wherever it says, “VaYomer Elokeem” and in one instance, where the Torah directly states what G-d said, vs. introducing it with the phrase, “VaYomer Elokeem”.
Rav Shlomo Carlebach taught: do you think G-d just “said” these ten utterances? No. G-d *SANG* them!
When you sing your blessings you are attuning yourself to the very fabric of Creation (and implicitly teaching us how to do so ourselves too, by following your technique. I daresay this is part of the secret and what we’re connecting to with regard to singing the davening in Shlomo’s “nusach Carlebach.”)
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p.s. When Rebbe writes, “What a warm and magnificent feeling! Someone loves me so much that she is constantly thinking of me and finding new ways to spoil me. I was overwhelmed.” See Psalm 18, verses 25, “And A-donoy recompensed me according to my righteousness”
As I’ve written to Rebbe and feel conscious of on a continual basis, oftentimes in flat out wonder: I feel exactly the same way you expressed in terms of the love you consistently demonstrate for all of us, your students.
I’ve also written to you privately, but want to say/teach publicly: one way I recognize who are my masters is that they love me *more* than I love them, and that is saying something.
Thank G-d, Baruch HaShem Yisborach!
May HaKadosh Baruch Hu bless us to strive to follow in your footsteps and to become and experience living reflections of the Love He sang into Creation.
May HaKadosh Baruch Hu bless you and further increase your capacities to contain and pour forth G-d’s shefah and ahavah to us, others and the worlds at large. Amen!