Spiritual Harmony

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

Spiritual Harmony

You can use Kabbalist tunes to connect to the spiritual roots
from which they were written without having to work hard. Just
relax and listen to the music.
Yet there is information in the notes themselves. The notes
in Kabbalah are not random or “free form.” Their harmony
is built on Kabbalistic rules and notes are chosen according
to the way a soul is built. They are a way to climb the ladder.
You (the listener) feel them penetrating deep within your soul,
unobstructed. This happens because of the direct connection
between your soul and the roots of the notes.
Go back to Chapter 10 and think of the spiritual nature of
Hebrew letters and their representation of numbers. The most
important thing in Kabbalistic music is not the notes themselves,
but all the fine nuances that exist between them.
Just to give you a sense of it, in Chapter 10 we said that there
are Taamim (flavors), Nekudot (dots under, within, and above the
letters), Tagin (tags on top of the letters), and Otiot (letters). These
represent nuances formed by the impression from the Light—
impressions, for instance, of Reshimot leaving and reentering the
spiritual vessel  

It is the same with melodies. Musicians who understand how
to play Kabbalistic melodies are few and far between. The difference
between one who plays
nicely and one who plays
correctly lies in the extent
to which one understands
where the important things
are. What’s most important
lies not in the sounds, but in
the tiniest symbols, in how
the sound begins and ends.
I had a wonderful student
who played the violin.
“I’m ready to play only on
the condition that you will hold my hand,” he would tell me.
And he was right—Kabbalah music is about conveying the right
feeling, not the accurate note.