Into the Mystic

 

 

אלה שרקדו נחשבו למשוגעים בעיני אלה שלא לשמוע את המוזיקה

The dancers looked insane in the eyes of those who couldn't hear the music.

 

These words were Graffiti'd on the back of a seat of the number 21 bus in Jerusalem.  Sometimes you get a reminder why you live in Israel.

 

Vayikra is about hearing the voice calling out to you from the small aleph.  The one divine spark within each Jew that calls out to each person.  There are many whose entire pursuit in life is to try to hear the voice calling out.  

To try to hear the sweet music of the soul.  Those who have never heard the sound of the neshama, the music of the mystical, can't understand why certain people are dancing while others are not.

When I would talk to people about Phish shows and jam music, occassionally I would encounter the "haters"who just didn't get what all of the fuss was about.  They stood on the side lines and mocked the dancing that they saw.  It was always clear to me, that they just didn't hear the music.  

If you don't hear the music, the dancing looks like insanity.

All year, I am in pain because I just can't hear the music.  So I tell myself, " Well the music isn't really that good anyway."  Being deep, real and honest, is hard.  We all struggle to become those things.  But we shouldn't fall into the trap of convincing ourselves that those things aren't real.

May we be blessed this Purim, to allow ourselves to be free,משוחרר , to open up and dance to the music our our own small א.  The blessing on the megilla, is to hear the one voice of the megilla being read.  To listen to the megilla, the revelation of our individual אסתר of that which is concealed within us.