Music—Touches where Texts Can Not

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

Music—Touches where Texts Can Not

Kabbalists use texts to explain to others the levels of spirituality
they have reached. In their writings, however, Kabbalists only
advise us on how to attain an impression, sensation, and
discovery of this reality. They write about the kind of actions
that you must perform within, with your desires, screens, and
Reshimot—with everything inside your soul.
The books say, in effect, “Perform certain actions and you will
discover certain things.” They do not, however, describe what we
will feel because it is impossible to convey the feeling in words.
It is similar to offering a new food to someone and saying,
“Try it, and you’ll see what it’s like!” Whether it is bitter or sweet, 

you only hint at what the person is going to sense or how he will
experience the sensation. Yet the sensation itself is experienced
only by the person receiving the offer, not by anyone else.
This is why it is difficult for Kabbalists to convey what they
feel, what they face, what is revealed before them: what the concealed
world is like. Only one medium somehow expresses the impressions
and delight of a person before whom the Upper World
has revealed itself, and that is music. This is why, in addition
to writing articles and very deep, intricate material, Kabbalists
also write melodies and songs. It is one more way to express the
sensations of a Kabbalist
in a more concise manner,
from heart to heart, through
melodies, without words, so
that these melodies would
permeate our hearts and
change us in some way,
somehow tuning us into perceiving
the Upper World