#Davidic kinnor

[bosses-stay-flawless]

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The bible tells us that David had a vow of praise unto the Lord. Seven times a day he would praise the Lord, and three times a day he would pray.

The political class must have hated it. It didn’t matter if he was in the middle of a press conference, or state of the union address, or photo-ops or whatever, they knew that at any moment this crazy, guitar playing king, would grab up the kinnor and begin to whirl and dance and praise the Lord.

“I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord, I will enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise! -King David

[ofglories]

❛  if i try, i fail. if i don't try, i'm never going to get it.  ❜ (ritsuka for a muse of your choice!)

|| AtLA starters ; accepting!

"That's the correct way to think of it after all, Master."

A smile crossed David's face despite how the Archer didn't bother to look up from where he was adjusting the strings on his kinnor. It wasn't meant to be disrespectful, far from it. David had nothing but the utmost respect for Ritsuka, even if...sometimes he didn't show it too well. Or, well, often he didn't show it as well as he could. Ah, the follies of his endless pride.

Shaking his head, he finally looked up with a proper smile.

"The worst that can happen if you try is failing! But if you never make an attempt, how can you ever be sure if you're meant for it or not? Yeah?" His hands moved over the strings, drawing forth a familiar melody for a brief moment. "It's like learning an instrument. All you need to do is try and practice."

[shalomelohim]

What did King David's Lyre actually sound like ? by Michael Levy - Instrumental

Harpe, Lyre, Kinnor...

Pour soulager des mauvais esprits

“ Et lorsque l'esprit de Dieu était sur Saül, David prenait la harpe et jouait de sa main; Saül respirait alors plus à l'aise et se trouvait soulagé, et le mauvais esprit se retirait de lui. “ (1 Samuel 16:23)

Pour soutenir l’onction pendant que l’Eternel donne son message au Prophète

“ Elisée dit : Maintenant, amenez-moi un joueur de harpe. Et comme le joueur de harpe jouait, la main de l'Eternel fut sur Elisée. Et il dit : Ainsi parle l'Eternel:... “ (2 Rois 3:15-16)

Pour célébrer Elohim

“ Chantez à l'Eternel avec actions de grâces, Célébrez notre Dieu avec la harpe ! “ (Psaume 147:7)

“ Qu'Israël se réjouisse en celui qui l'a créé ! Que les fils de Sion soient dans l'allégresse à cause de leur roi ! Qu'ils louent son nom avec des danses, Qu'ils le célèbrent avec le tambourin et la harpe ! Car l'Eternel prend plaisir à son peuple, Il glorifie les malheureux en les sauvant. “ (Psaume 149:2-4)

“ Louez-le pour ses hauts faits ! Louez-le selon l'immensité de sa grandeur ! Louez-le au son de la trompette ! Louez-le avec le luth et la harpe ! Louez-le avec le tambourin et avec des danses ! Louez-le avec les instruments à cordes et le chalumeau ! “ (Psaume 150:2-4)

The Original 3000 Year Old Melody of Psalm 27 - Revealed ? - Chanson

Psaume 27 : Le triomphe de la foi

Belle atmosphère

(In english under the video on YT)

Suite à la destruction tragique du Second Temple de Jérusalem, tout l'héritage musical du Temple, tant vocal qu'instrumental, semblait à jamais perdu. Cependant, les scribes massorétiques ont conservé (avec le texte consonantique biblique lui-même) une ancienne "tradition de lecture" remontant (selon eux) à l'ère du Second Temple ; et à partir d'il y a environ 1 200 ans, ils ont minutieusement copié cette tradition dans les moindres détails. Le texte massorétique est toujours la plus ancienne copie complète de la Bible hébraïque que nous ayons.

Une partie de la "tradition de lecture" que les Massorètes ont préservée était une série d'"accents" ("Te Amim"), qui se produisent dans tout le Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im et Ketuvim) dans deux systèmes. 

Les Massorètes ne comprenaient pas le sens ou la signification monumentale de ces accents, et pendant des siècles, il y a eu d'innombrables théories quant à leur signification originale. La plupart des théories sont parties du postulat qu'elles devaient souligner des points précis de grammaire dans le texte. Laissant de côté tous ces débats, Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura s'est concentrée uniquement sur la recherche d'un sens musical à ces « accents ».

A travers d'innombrables expériences et un laborieux processus de vérification irréfutable (utilisant la structure de la phrase verbale hébraïque elle-même comme sa "Pierre de Rosette"), elle s'est finalement rendu compte que tous ces symboles représentent des tons musicaux : les 7 degrés d'une gamme heptatonique, ou bien les ornements d'un à trois notes ! 

Les accents étaient en fait des transcriptions de gestes de la main - qui formaient l'ancien système de notation musicale de la cheironomy, dans lequel un geste de la main spécifique représentait un changement spécifique dans la hauteur d'une mélodie.

Cette présentation présente l'enregistrement original de Haik-Vantoura de 1976 sur le volume 2 de son album, "La Musique De La Bible Révélée", de sa reconstruction de ce qui pourrait bien être les mélodies bibliques originales de 3000 ans, chantées autrefois.

The Original 3000 Year Old Melody of the Psalm 19 - Revealed ?

Psaume 19 : Les oeuvres et la parole de Dieu

Splendide chant 

Kinnor - Priestly Blessing on the Biblical Harp by Melissa Dittrich David

Healing melody

Nombres 6:22-27 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit : Parle à Aaron et à ses fils, et dis : Vous bénirez ainsi les enfants d'Israël, vous leur direz : Que l'Eternel te bénisse, et qu'il te garde ! Que l'Eternel fasse luire sa face sur toi, et qu'il t'accorde sa grâce ! Que l'Eternel tourne sa face vers toi, et qu'il te donne la paix ! C'est ainsi qu'ils mettront mon nom sur les enfants d'Israël, et je les bénirai.

Autre version de la bénédiction sacerdotale en hébreu :

The Music of the Bible Revealed - Ancient Echoes - SAVAE (San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble)

La musique commence à 33′

Puissant et Pur

[udayg]

Ancient Genius

Presenting my latest blog post: Ancient Genius: Lost Arts and Hidden Technologies. I hope you enjoy it!

[walkswithmyfather]

“In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.” —Toby Mac

David went through a LOT of trials, including the loss of a child and being forced to flee for his life from Saul, who really wanted him dead. Through it all, David never blamed God or turned his back on Him. David continued to praise His God several times, every day. David wrote many songs in the Psalms - some of them are about thanksgiving, praise and adoration of God; but some psalms are about pain, suffering, repentance, and pleas for forgiveness.

David shows us that, no matter what, God will carry you through it all. Just keep praying and praising! 🙌

Friend, the enemy will keep throwing you curve balls. His tactics are to destroy your peace, steal your joy, get you away from God and take you down any way he can. Don't let the enemy get to you. When you are close to God, the enemy can't touch you. In the darkest times of your life, let your praise to God be the loudest you can make it. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of that dark Psalm 23 valley, because your God is walking beside you all the way. He never leaves you for a second. Even if you can't feel Him there. Amen! 🙌

“Pray many times per day” by Chris Jane

“Psalm 119:160-164 says: “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.”

The bible tells us that David had a vow of praise unto the Lord. Seven times a day he would praise the Lord, and three times a day he would pray. The political class must have hated it. It didn’t matter if he was in the middle of a press conference, or state of the union address, or photo-ops or whatever, they knew that at any moment this crazy, guitar playing king, would grab up the kinnor and begin to whirl and dance and praise the Lord.

What if we established this same discipline in our own lives? What if when we wake up in the morning, we lay there for a few minutes and sing to the Lord the song that’s in our hearts. At mid-morning we could sing our favorite scripture songs to Him. At lunchtime, even if you’re going through the drive-through, turn up the music and set your thoughts on Him. In the mid-afternoon, whatever’s going on, take a few minutes and have a praise vacation. Recall some of your favorite praise and worship choruses. And what if you sang your thanks over dinner with your family. And in the evening, try turning the TV off for 10 minutes and dance before Him. And at bedtime, like David, let “a song be upon your lips.”

[momowho34]

I have read the biblical books of Samuel and thus concluded;

King David is:

Such a dramatic bitch that he wrote 150 psalms for no fucking reason

The amount of songs he wrote is innumerable and that is extra as fuck

Is so good at playing the kinnor (its basically an ancient lute) that he could banish demons with it.

Chaotic neutral on a good day

Notoriously hot

Made a habit of running into the woods when something went wrong.

Petty as fuck

Managed to gain a following of four hundred outlaws to follow him and rebel against the king on his charisma alone

Look, am I saying King David is a bard? Well... yes. Yes that’s exactly what I’m saying.

[we-shall-remain]

He had seen Goetia speaking with another Solomon, and David wasn’t surprised. With the way the Throne of Heroes worked, there could be multiple copies of every Servant at the same time although they each tended to represent a different aspect of the original hero.

Like himself; who tended to look towards his family and their hopeful future of freedom once this was all over. He still liked money and women, of course, but such things were dulled in comparison to what he found the most important.

Like Romani and Solomon, for they all were his sons, even if they didn’t want anything to do with him. He still loved them; the peaces of his heart.

So, as it happened, David was sitting in Chaldea’s common room, a few notes plucked from his kinnor as he worked to remember a song he’d played long ago. A song he’d written for Solomon.

@jedidiah​ 

[whalehouse1]

Archer Rank Up Ideas

Just like with the saber class, I did it for archers as well. Some might be considered broken, but after what we’ve seen in Japan, who really cares? I’ll probably do riders and lancers tomorrow.

Emiya: Mind's Eye > Rho Aias: Apply true immunity to himself for one turn and increases his defense between 20-35% for three turns.

Gilgamesh: Charisma > The Epic of Gilgamesh: Increases all allies' attack by 30% for three turns and applies a 50-100% damage modifier to himself for one turn against enemies with the Weak to Enuma Elish trait.

Robin Hood: Sabotage > Protector of the Forest: Inflicts 1k poison damage to all enemies for 5 turns, reduces their defense between 10-20% for 5 turns and reduce their attack between 10-20% for  five turns as well.                         Golden Rule > Share with the Poor: Increases party's NP Gain between 20-35% for three turns.

Atalante: Hunter's Aesthetic > Hunteress of the Moon: Applies a star gather rate to herself between 500-1k% for one turn, increases crtical strength for one turn between 50-80% for one turn and applies a special damage to enemies with the Wild Beast trait for one turn.                  Calydonian Hunt A > Calydonian Hunt A+: Grants self evade for one turn, Increases own np gain by between 30-50% for three turns and apply ignore defense to herself for three turns.

Euryale: Siren Song > Song of the Idol: Applies charm to a male target for one turn and applies 10-20% attack up for her two allies. Cooldown Reduction: 7-6 turns.

Arash: Clairvoyance > Hawkeye: Increases star generation by 50-100% and increases his critical strength between 50-80% for three turns.             Arrow Creation A > Arrow Creation EX: Heals himself between 1k-3k, charges his np gauge between 30-40% and increases his buster performance between 10-20% for one turn.

Orion: Affection of the Goddess > Blessings of the Loving Moon: Increases defense between 40-60% defense for one turn, increases attack by 30% for three turns, removes debuffs and applies debuff 50-100% debuff resistance for three turns.

David: Divine Protection > He Who is in His Grace: Increases own defense between 50-80% for one turn, heals himself between 2k-3k health, applies 30-50% debuff resistance for three turns.             Harp of Healing > Kinnor of Healing: Heals all party members between 500-1k health, grants party evade for one attack and applies the special Kinnor status for three uses that when an ally is afflicted with a mental debuff one will be expended to cleanse the ally of it, this buff is stackable.            Charisma > Call to Glory: Applies a 10-20% attack buff to all allies and grants a 10-20% defense buff to all allies for three turns.

Nobu: Strategy > Ruthless Strategy: Increases party's np gain between 20-30% and increases their star gen between 30-50% for three turns.             Three Line Formation E~A> Three Line Formation E~A+: Increases base damage to 400-600%, increases star gen for herself between 20-60% based on np level and deals 150-200% damage against Riding trait enemies.

Arjuna: Mana Burst (Flame) > Mana Burst (Indra's Lighting): Increases buster, arts and np damage between 20-30% for one turn.

Kid Gil: Charisma > Wisdom of the King: Increases all allies attack between 20-30% for three turns and increases all allies debuff success rate between 50-100% for three turns.               Charming Youth > Charming Youth (Golden): 60-100% chance to charm an enemy and produce between 10-20 stars. Cooldown Reduction 7-6 turns.

Billy the Kid: Marksmanship A++> DeadEye A++: Increases critical strength 70-130% for one turn and increases his quick performance between 10-20% for three turns.                         Quick Draw A+ > Quick Draw (Fan the Hammer) A+: Increases np gauge between 30-50% and provide between 5-15 stars for three turns.

Tristan: Unblessed Birth B > Unblessed Birth A: Increases np gauge between 30-50%, applies np seal to himself and increases own np damage between 20-30% for two turns.

Tawara: Bag of Rice > Forever Spilling Rice EX: Increases party's max health between 2k-3k and applies debuff immunity for three times for all allies.

Moriarty: Dynamics of an Asteroid A+ > Dynamics of an Asteroid A++: Reduces enemy's defense between 20-40% based on overcharge befor attacking, deals between 800-1.2k% damage to an enemy and increases crtical damage for himself between 20-50% based on overcharge for three turns.

Emiya Alter: Projection > Trace On (Damaged Heart): Increases Buster, Quick and Arts performance twice each for three turns between 30-50% and grants him three times critcal up between 30-50% for three turns as well.

Tomoe: Demonic Magic> Magical Flames of the Oni: Increases party's attack for three turns between 10-20%, increases own np damage between 20-30% and applies a burn effect for 500 damage to her face cards for three turns.

[didanawisgi]

HAVE THE BIBLICAL LYRES SURVIVED TO THE PRESENT DAY? 

by Michael Levy - Composer for Lyre

“In Ethiopia, there is tantalizing evidence, that a lyre still played today by musicians of this region, and traditionally known by them as the "Begena", is an almost exact replica of the one of ancient Jewish Temple Lyres, namely the Nevel Asor - as explained earlier in the section about the Biblical Nevel, this was probably a 10-string version of the Biblical Nevel. Incredibly, according to Ethiopian tradition, the Begena is often referred to as 'King David's Harp' - introduced to Ethiopia in Biblical times, (along with the actual Ark of the Covenant, which according to the same tradition, still is housed in Ethiopia, in the chapel of Axum) by Menelik I - whom according to ancient Ethiopian tradition, was none other than the son of King Solomon himself and the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba... Exactly like the Ethiopian Begena, all the evidence suggests that the Nevel Asor of Biblical times, was a bass register instrument (for the reasons outlined in my discussion of the Biblical Nevel and outlined again below in this section), and according to the first hand writings of the 1st century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, was played with the fingers (instead of a plectrum, which he described the Kinnor being played with). Also like the Biblical Nevel, the Begena also generally has a soundboard of skin!

There is a fascinating video clip of a Begena Lyre player which I have recently found on YouTube:  

According to Ethiopian tradition, Menelik I brought the Temple Lyres to Ethiopia from Israel...crucially, the Begena Lyre also has 10 strings - identical in number to the 10 sheep gut strings of the original, ancient Hebrew Kinnor of King David and the Nevel Asor, played in the Temple of Jerusalem!

COULD THE ETHIOPIAN BEGENA BE  IDENTIFIED AS EITHER THE BIBLICAL KINNOR OR THE BIBLICAL NEVEL?

The essential difference I can think of, between the contemporary Ethiopian Begena and the ancient Biblical Kinnor, may be one of pitch - the Begena is a bass register instrument. This leads me to believe that the Begena could maybe regarded as a relic of the Biblical Nevel lyre, rather than the Kinnor. As discussed earlier, according the the Mishnah, the Biblical Nevel had thicker strings made of the sheep's large intestines, whereas the Kinnor's thinner strings were made from the small intestines.

Another clue to the hypothesis that the Nevel was a bass instrument, also comes from the number of Nevels which were used in comparison to the number of Kinnors used in the Levitical Ensemble - according to the Mishnah, the use of the Nevel in the Levitical Ensemble was limited to "no fewer than two and no more than six", whereas "never fewer than nine Kinnorot, and more may be added" (Mishnah, Arak 2:5)

This implies that the Nevels provided the bass, over which the treble Kinnors provided the melodic lines - just as in a modern string orchestra, where the number of violins greatly outnumbers the number of double basses/cellos.

Further evidence in my attempt at identifying the Begena with the Biblical Nevel, can also be deduced from the playing style itself - according to the first-hand observations and records by Flavius Josephus, who actually witnessed the Levitical Ensemble in the 1st century CE, the Nevel was played with the fingers, whereas the Kinnor was played with a plectrum (Antiquities, vii.12.3). The Begena is always played with the fingers...just like the description of the Biblical Nevel!

Quite often, the Begena has a soundboard of taut leather, as in the video clip - this could be evidence of the interpretation mentioned above, of the elusive Biblical Nevel as having a skin membrane.

However, what of the twelve strings of the original Biblical Nevel, which Josephus also informs us of in his Antiquities vii. 12.3? The modern Begena has ten strings, like the Biblical Kinnor. This anomaly can be explained by the Biblical reference to another type of Nevel - the "Nevel Asor". This name literally means "A Nevel With Ten Strings"!

Here is the Biblical musicologist, John Wheeler's thoughts on this fascinating possibility:

"The ten-stringed wooden lyre I've seen from Ethiopia might well be a descendant of Egypt's version of what the Bible calls kinnor al - ha-Sheminit. Suzanne haik Vnatoura thought that might be like the Greek magadis with ten pairs of strings, but another possibility is that it was simply a bass lyre - a kinnor tuned an octave lover, "upon the Eighth" in Hebrew. Whereas the nevel `al -alamot "upon Maidens" or of "maidenly pitch" was more numerous and thus apparently of higher pitch than the specialized kinnor (all this referring to 1 Chronicles 15). The regular kinnor and nevel likely had a reverse pitch relationship, with the kinnor higher than the nevel (given the latter's thicker strings). As far as I've ever seen in archaeology, bass versions of the kinnor and other bass lyres were only played with the fingers - that practice going back to ancient Mesopotamia. Lyres with plectra are at lowest of about high tenor range. I can play my Celtic harp with a guitar pick readily enough all the way down, but it sounds a whole lot better on the upper monofilament strings, again from high tenor range up."

If this hypothesis is true, then the Ethiopian Begena, therefore, could be quite literally described as the elusive Biblical Nevel Asor - unchanged, in over 3000 years! A truly fascinating possibility...

THE SOUND OF THE BEGENA AND THE SOUND OF THE RESTORED BULL LYRE OF UR - AN ONOMATOPOEIC ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT HEBREW WORD FOR "MELODY"?  It is also fascinating just how similar the contemporary Begena Lyre sounds, compared to the playable reconstruction of the famous 4600  year old "Bull Lyre of Ur":

It is particularly interesting to hear the same "buzz" the gut strings make, in both the replica Lyre of Ur, and the Begena - maybe, the reason the Hebrew words for melody; "Zemer"‎ and Psalms, "Mizmor", sounds like they do, is because originally, these words were onomatopoeic - the actual sounds of the words "Zemer" and "Mizmor", sound like the buzzing of the gut strings as they would have sounded on the original, ancient Biblical lyres? Yet another fascinating possibility!

Indeed, the flatter bench-shaped bridges most commonly depicted on almost all illustrations of ancient lyres, suggest that some sort of subtle buzzing quality was common to the timbre of most of the actual lyres of antiquity. The buzzing quality of the strings is associated with this type of bridge, in contrast to the 'clean' harp-like tone produced by a more modern 'A' shaped pointed bridge found on most modern 'replica' lyres, whose bridge is actually based more on the design of the bridge of a modern guitar! My replica ancient Greek chelys (tortoise shell form lyre) made by Luthieros in modern day Greece, has this more authentic 'bench-shaped' bridge, and produces just such a subtle buzz, similar to that of a sitar. I am therefore almost certain, that it is more likely that the original Biblical lyres also had this hypnotic buzzing timbre.

The fact that the Ethiopian word for melody is the strikingly similar sounding word "Mezmur", to me, reinforces the evidence for an ancient musical connection going back to Biblical times, between the music of ancient Israel and Ethiopia.

Whatever the facts or fiction in the Ethiopian tradition of Menelik I being the son of King Solomon from his marriage to the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba, there certainly seems to be more facts than fiction in the ever growing grains of evidence I have so far explored! However it may have actually happened, to me, I am now almost certain that somehow, the ancient sound of the Biblical Nevel Asor can still be heard today, amazingly preserved since Biblical times, in the enchanting, exotic buzzing timbres of the Ethiopian Begena...”

Source: http://ancientlyre.com/have_the_biblical_lyres_survived_to_the_present_day_in_africa/

[pargolettasworld]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpoopuoIPk

So I’ve got some bad news for you.  Everything you’ve read about King David’s Harp, whether or not it’s “of solemn sound,” as Isaac Watts phrased it, is wrong.  David didn’t play a harp.  He played a kinnor, and the kinnor is a lyre, not a harp.  They’re similar instruments, but not the same; the lyre’s strings run from a crossbar parallel to the soundboard, while the harp’s strings run from a bow perpendicular to the soundboard.  I admit, the phrase “Like David’s lyre of solemn sound” doesn’t sound as good if you’re singing shape-note, but that’s what he played.

So does this guy.  I first became aware of his work a few years ago, and it fascinates me.  He’s used the images of ancient lyres that we’ve found on Biblical-era coins, as well as descriptions both from the Bible and from the early Roman Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, to reconstruct the Biblical kinnor and teach himself to play music on it.  And . . . he sounds pretty good!

Now, the music that he plays is mostly not period music, because very little of that exists.  Most of what does exist isn’t Jewish; the kinnor was a popular instrument throughout much of the ancient Levant.  So Mr. Levy here is playing music that’s much more modern on a modern re-creation of an ancient instrument.  And he sounds good doing it.  It’s not a terrifically academic exercise, but it’s a really interesting thought experiment brought to life:  what if the shofar weren’t the only Jewish instrument from the Bible that we brought into the Diaspora?  What if we brought the kinnor, too?  What if the klezmorim had access to a kinnor as well as to a tsimbl?

Who knows?  Klezmer music might have sounded a bit like this.

[quotesfromscripture]

The Ruah Ra’ah

“So Saul [Sha’ul] sent messengers [mal’akim] to Jesse [Yishai], and said, ‘Send me your son David [David binka] who is with the sheep.’ 

Jesse [Yishai] took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a kid, and sent them by his son David [David benow] to Saul [Sha’ul]. And David came to Saul, and entered his service [wayya’amod lephanaw]. Saul loved him [ye’ehabehu] greatly, and he became his armor-bearer. Saul sent to Jesse, saying, ‘Let David remain in my service [lephanai], for he has found favor [chen] in my sight.’ 

And whenever the evil spirit from God [ruah Elohiym] came upon Saul, David took the lyre [kinnor] and played it [weniggen] with his hand, and Saul would be relieved [rawach] and feel better [tov], and the evil spirit [ruah hara’ah] would depart [sarah] from him.” 

- 1 Samuel 16:19-23 NRSV (1989)

[oneshul]

Behar-Bechukotai: Faith and Doubt

Scene: A campfire in the midst of the Israelite encampment. It is late; most, or all, of the people have gone to bed, conditioned to follow the rhythms of the days and the months and the seasons—they have no other way of telling time. It is rare for anyone to stay up late, even beside a roaring fire, for fear of wild animals which roam the wilderness.

It is late, but we find Rabbi Moses and his two nephews, Elazar and Itamar, the latter serving as sub-priests in the Desert Shrine, the Mishkan. They sit by the fire and hope for wisdom from their learned uncle, who, as Chief of the Prophets, both those who preceded and those who will follow him, is able to speak with the LORD GOD as with a beloved comrade.

The fire is dying down.

Itamar (turning to his brother, and drawing a leathern wine-sack from his robes): Plum wine, My Brother Elazar? It will ward off the night’s cold.

Elazar (shrinking back): No thank you, Brother Itamar. How can you drink that stuff? It tastes foul, and the burning goes right through my body. And, besides—after what happened to our beloved brothers, Nadav and Avihu? How can you dare follow their bad example? No, thank you, again.

Itamar (drinking deeply): I find it soothes me, after a long day of cutting sheeps’-throats and burning carcass after carcass to the Spirit in the Clouds. It makes it easier to forget. May I tell you a secret?

Elazar (gesturing towards Moses, who is swaying and prayerfully mumbling incoherently): Careful you keep your voice low, if you don’t want our steadfast uncle to overhear.

Itamar (waving a hand in dismissal): He will not hear us; he is entranced by the flames, and communing with his God. Here is my secret, Brother Dear: I never wanted to be a priest. I wanted to play the kinnor, the ten-stringed harp, and write psalms.

Elazar: In praise of God?

Itamar: You may think so—you may well think so (he laughs ruefully). No, not in praise of that Thunderer who sends plagues; I wanted to woo Ahuvah bat Kehvess, the daughter of that wealthy shepherd from the Tribe of Issachar. But Poppa Aaron and our religion-minded Uncle Moses over there insisted that you and I replace our dead brothers. How can a man argue with his elders? And so I, an obedient son, put on Avihu’s linen robes and picked up the slaughtering-knife. More’s the pity: my harp has gone missing, and my fire-scorched brain is befuddled daily by the smoke of offerings to His Testiness. Ha!

Elazar: I beg you, Brother, to stop speaking in this manner. It does not dignify the robes you wear or the exalted office you hold, to insult the Most High God.

Itamar (drinking again): Why, will He smite me dead? Let Him do so, and welcome—I have heard from Egyptian soothsayers in the camp—part of the Mixed Multitude that Ramesses II sent along with us—that Nadav and Avihu did not truly die—rather, they were smitten by Anubis, god of the Dead, and mystically carried off to the Afterlife. Such a fate would I desire for myself—anything, anything not to see the face of another dumb beast as I raise my knife! Cows, sheep, goats—they haunt my dreams. I am a musician and poet, not a butcher. O Nadav, Avihu, Anubis—how lucky they are, how lucky—

Elazar: Brother, please be careful of your words. The Lord God will not brook any blasphemy from the laypeople; all the moreso from His anointed priests. Please, my brother—

Itamar: Pah! What do I care about His proscriptions and prohibitions, the minutiae of mitzvot? I tell you, Brother: I think that God’s a fable. Indeed, I posit that there is a Natural Law beyond Torah Law. I—

Elazar (soothingly): Calm yourself, Brother. Look, look upward, at the stars! How can you tell me that you do not believe in our God, when you behold the beauty of His universe? Please, Brother—

Itamar: Yes, Brother: I admire the stars above—so much so, that I suggest that God and the Universe are one. Matter and mind, mind and matter—perhaps all nature, not God alone, is divine! And I believe that the Universe is uncaring, uninvolved in our affairs. Consider: if God were a caring deity, I daresay He would not have destroyed our brothers over an accidental, mistaken incense formula. How small—how petty of the Thunderer!

Elazar (seeing Moses coming out of his trance): Hush now, Brother: our uncle is returning to us from the World of Faith and Prophecy, and will shortly share with us new knowledge of our God, and of the future of our people.

Itamar: (sarcastically) O my prophetic soul! Mine uncle? Then must I harken unto him.

Moses (shaking himself awake, as though from a long trance or dream): Hear, O’ Israel: the Lord your God is a jealous God, punishing those who maintain misguided ideas about His nature. And He will punish the third and fourth generations of those who doubt Him or His power….

Elazar (nudging Itamar, who is beginning to nod off from the effects of the alcohol and the lateness of the hour): D’you hear, my Brother? Beware the path you are following—God is watching!

Moses: …And those entrusted with His priesthood must watch themselves all the more carefully, for right thoughts, right reason, right actions (Itamar rises, yawns and stretches).

Elazar (clutching at Itamar’s sleeve): How can you ignore the words of our rabbi-uncle? You must stand in awe of God!

Itamar (exiting): ‘Tis late: I must go to sleep. Let Him strike or bless me, as He wishes; I will never cease to question. Good night, Brother, Uncle. Upon my thin and narrow priestly bed, I will commune with God—or the Universe—and be still.

Rabbi David Hartley Mark is from New York City’s Lower East Side. He attended Yeshiva University, the City University of NY Graduate Center for English Literature, and received semicha at the Academy for Jewish Religion. He currently teaches English at Everglades University in Boca Raton, FL, and has a Shabbat pulpit at Temple Sholom of Pompano Beach. His literary tastes run to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stephen King, King David, Kohelet, Christopher Marlowe, and the Harlem Renaissance.

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Who is this King of Spade, represented here with an harp and a scepter? It's King David, of course! David who outsmarted and killed Goliath, David, father of Salomon and especially David, who played the Kinnor and allegedly composed the Book of Psalms. In Cartomancy, the King of Spade often represents a ambitious and rigorous man, whose authority and stern attitude can be intimidating. #tarot #tarotcards #tarotreading #tarotreadersofinstagram #antique #art #card #oracle #divination #cartomancy #cartomancer #museum #deathandresurrectionasmuse #king #spade https://www.instagram.com/p/CEwZWKxn-AJ/?igshid=1gkig1rb5bly9

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MINI KINNOR HARFE 10 SAITEN SPITZENHOLZ

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König Davids Harfe aus Spitzenholz 10 Nylonfäden für die biblische Skala. Mit farbigen, harten DuPont-Nylon-Saiten für einfaches Spielen. Bei diesem Kinnor werden hochwertige Zither-Tuning-Pins verwendet

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Psalms sung by the priests of King David, who united the kingdom of Israel and Judea in 1003 BC, are riven through with references to instruments and to singing.  (The Greek word 'psalm' itself, strictly speaking, refers to a religious song with accompaniment by plucked string instrument.)  In one psalm alone, number 150, tof (timbrel or tambourine)ḥaṣoṣerah (trumpet), shofar (horn), kinnor (triangular-frame harp or lyre), nebel (psaltery), ‘uġav (possibly a type of organ or alternatively a flute), meṣiltayim (cymbals) and minnim (an unspecified group of stringed instruments) are invoked in praise of God.

“The Story of Music”

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Logo criada para um grupo musical de musica judaico-messiânica, cujas composições inéditas misturam o hebraico e o português.

O Logo é composto de dois símbolos característicos da cultura bíblica e hebraica: o Kinnor, mais conhecido como a Harpa de David, e o Shofar, que o chifre de carneiro usado como instrumento de sopro.

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