It is a moment of reliving the revelry and the sadness of the scene at the Sea of Reeds. ![]() This bittersweet melody brings up a personal memory for me that of a moment in the Jewish weekday service. For verses 1-3, there is a tune that is not the regular Torah trope it is a bittersweet musical mode, designed to reflect the gravity of receiving redemption from Egypt at a high cost to the Egyptians. The Song of the Sea can be read, chanted or sung. We can tell from this special text arrangement that this is a song rather than prose. ![]() 15:1-21 looks like in a Torah scroll notice especially the unusual layout and design: Shabbat Shirah, which is on January 27th this year, is a special Shabbat for focusing on the power of music in celebration and with re-creating sacred moments. Torah is filled with mechanisms for bringing us closer to God through sacred words and music. ![]() ![]() “And Miriam the Prophetess, Aharon’s sister, took the drum in her hand and all the women went forth after her, with drumming and dancing”
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