Nu, what about you?
Now, if the Jewish world can accept that King David prophetically composed Psalm 22 for lonely Queen Esther, for her to have a little something to sing and pray while completely isolated from her people...
It means that King David -- a mere mortal -- had somehow reached beyond ordinary time, by riding on a whole other wavelength of perception entirely.
And of course, for Abraham's God to be the Creator of all time, means that there's no competition. He can do with time what He wants, which from an earthy perspective may flip the natural order to its seeming opposite. Clockwise, or counterclockwise. All the same, really. It depends if the view is from above, or from below.
One day I got to thinking about Joseph, and the spiritual concept that "it all depends on the mother". How did Joseph end up being the big dreamer of the family? Even such that he had been dispatched [from above] in order to engineer (reverse-engineer) a great deliverance?
Mothers, and their lullabies. They come so naturally. Rachel was prevented from singing a single lullaby to Benjamin, but to Joseph... she could sing her heart out:
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh, why can't I?
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh, why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
I've been inspired by the little flock of bluebirds that have been visiting daily for the past several months, even though this place is supposedly outside of their winter range.
Then sure enough, I found this, without even looking for it...
Background of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" 1939
The music was written by Harold Arlen, a cantor's son. His real name was Hyman Arluck and his parents were from Lithuania.
Together, Hochberg and Arluck wrote "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which was voted the 20th century's number one song by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In writing it, the two men reached deep into their immigrant Jewish consciousness - framed by the pogroms of the past and the looming Holocaust about to happen - and wrote an unforgettable melody set to near prophetic words
Read the lyrics in their Jewish context and suddenly the words are no longer about wizards and Oz, but about Jewish survival...
Judy Garland Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939) with Lyrics, story of song (Batya)
Rachel had named her second son Benoni. But then for some reason... Benoni disappeared from Earthly existence right along with his mother. That's 3576 years worth of lullabies..
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
