Psalm 27, the gorgeous, heart-filled, and raw piece of holy poetry that accompanies the month of Elul, challenges us to ask what our lives would be like if we couldn't see the good, the magic, the Divine, in the world around us. What if I couldn't? It's hard to say...
I am indebted to my friend and mentor Rabbi Eli Cohen, who pointed out the dots, the Elul anagram, and the fact that this is a conditional clause whose conditions are never revealed, and challenged me to imagine why.
The chant of Lulei He’emanti that we sing above is by Rabbi Andrew Hahn, the Kirtan Rabbi. Listen to his recording of the chant on Soundcloud.
For a compendium of scribal anomalies in Torah, click here.
Wishing all readers a happy, healthy, safe year of endurance and awakening.