Posted on 07/15/2021 6:00:37 PM PDT by Ezekiel
On Armistice Day 1938, cheerful Kate Smith approached the microphones to say,
Hello Everybody. It is my happy privilege to introduce a new song:
God
Bless
America
Kate Smith singing GOD BLESS AMERICA
It is well-known that this beloved song was written by Irving Berlin. What may not be common knowledge is that "Irving" was the anglicisation of his birth name, which was
ISRAEL
"...widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook."
God Bless America is a solemn prayer, composed by a man named Israel.
While listening to the song, I formatted the text to reflect the increasing energy, the voices joining in, and the tempo changes:
While the storm clouds gather
Far across the sea
Let us swear allegiance
To a land that's free
Let us all be grateful
For a land so fair
As we raise our voices
in a solemn prayer:
God,
Bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam!
God,
Bless America,
my home sweet home.
God,
Bless America, land that I love!
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From.. the.. mountains...
to the prairies...
To the oceans...
white with foam.
God,
Bless America.
my home
sweet home.
From the mountains!
to the prairies!
To the oceans!
white with foam!!!
GOD,
BLESS AMERICA!
MY
HOME
SWEET
HOME
!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the same year (the Sound of Music takes place in 1938) -- as the storm clouds gathered far across the sea --
The Reverend Mother said,
These walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them.
You have to live the life you were born to live
Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Til you find your dream.
A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.
Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Til you find your dream.
A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.
Climb every mountain!
Ford every stream!
Follow every rainbow!
'TIL
YOU
FIND
YOUR
DREAM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sound of Music - Climb Every Mountain
Both of these powerful songs end on a very high note,
a note so high, it could break the proverbial glass.
The crash of glass ends the hush of mythic time under the huppah, and the world rushes in. Everyone exhales, claps and shouts, Mazel tov! The celebration begins.
Breaking the Glass at a Jewish Wedding: Why the Jewish wedding ceremony ends with a famous bang.
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It's opera's equivalent of the slip-on-the-banana-peel scene: The soprano on stage hits a high note so long and piercing that it cracks the opera glasses of the elegant dowager in the box seat. Hollywood can do that with a trick of editing, but is it possible in real life?
Well, yes it is. But so is being struck by lightning. In other words, it takes a rare convergence of particular conditions.
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To shatter glass, the note's frequency must be the same as that of the glass. That's one condition...
The note also has to be loud too, a quality known as intensity. Intensity is measured in decibels...
Finally, the glass must be strategically selected. A wine glass is a good choice.
Can you really shatter a glass with a high note?
Lucky!
For the first time, a female sailor has completed the 37-week training course to become a Naval Special Warfare combatant-craft crewman (SWCC) on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
The Associated Press reported the unnamed female sailor was one of 17 sailors to graduate and receive their SWCC course pins on Thursday. She is the first of 18 female sailors who have entered either the SWCC or Navy SEAL training pipelines to actually succeed.
1st female completes US Navy special warfare training
And a famous bang:
Tomorrow, July 16th, marks the 76th anniversary of the birth of the Atomic Age.
It certainly was a maverick solution to business as usual.
God Bless America--Kate Smith
Thursday, July 15, 2021
6 Av, 5781
Jewish History
First Human on the Moon (1969)
On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After a successful landing on the moon’s surface, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on our celestial neighbor, on July 21, corresponding to the Hebrew date of 6 Menachem Av.
Parshat Devarim, 5th Portion (Deuteronomy 2:2-2:30)
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=7/15/2021
(Climb every mountain...)
A long long time ago I noticed an interesting merge:
The first man to walk on the Earth: ADAM
The first man to walk on the Moon: NEIL
Putting the names together:
ADAMNEIL
and mixing them up like this:
IDEAL MAN
In Hebrew (and also with the English letters):
ANI LAMED [אני למד]
As you probably know, the lamed means to learn and to teach, and is the one letter that soars above the line, and is described as...
A three-stage rocket ship soaring into outer space.
Man’s aspiration to understand the universe.
https://www.inner.org/hebleter/lamed.htm
Now at what point do you think will come the collective epiphany that nothing is random?
It's time for Woody's Roundup
He's the very best
He's the rootinest tootinest cowboy
In the wild, wild west
Woody's Roundup
Come on and gather 'round
Woody's Roundup
Where nobody wears a frown
Bad guys go running
Whenever he's in town
He's the rootinest, tootinest, shootinest, hootinest cowboy around
Woody's Roundup
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Total round up!
"A song that will never die."
BTW, have you ever tracked the ancient origins of the Spanish word for the pass [between the hills]?
Via Latin of course, but it will take to the very root of the word "Hebrew". Without digging through etymologies, you can see it right there in the word.
Here's the Strong's entry for comparison.
Home sweet home.
Be blessed.
Ping.
About once a month or more my parents would turn on the record player and we would just sit back and listen and talk to each other.
Was a big fan of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass! And of coarse Sinatra.
Pre-internet days had alot of blessings.
Rubio is white with foam.
Delightful selections.
Thanks again.
Very interesting. I really like you ending with Moody’s Roundup.
Gen 37
9. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brothers, and said, Behold, I have again dreamed a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me:
10. And he told it to his father, and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth:
11. And his brothers envied him; but his father kept the matter in mind:
A Hebrew equivalent to dream on is אתה חי בסרט to a male, and את חיה בסרט to a female – literally, you’re living in a movie.It can be used not only as a refusal of an offer, but also as a way of giving the person you’re speaking with a reality check – get real.
What is this dream that you have dreamed? Get real...
Act Naturally
Buck Owens
They're gonna put me in the movies
They're gonna make a big star out of me
We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely
And all I gotta do is act naturally
Well, I'll bet you I'm a-gonna be a big star
Might win an Oscar you can't never tell
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well
Well, I hope you come and see me in the movie
Then I'll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time
And all I gotta do is act naturally
We'll make a scene about a man that's sad and lonely
And begging down upon his bended knee
I'll play the part but I won't need rehearsing
All I'll have to do is act naturally
Well, I'll bet you I'm a-gonna be a big star
Might win an Oscar you can't never tell
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well
Well, I hope you come and see me in the movie
Then I'll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time
And all I gotta do is act naturally
Best Old Classic Country Songs Of 1960s - Greatest 60s Country Music Collection (starting at min 36:41)
Followed immediately by "Dream, dream dream dream, Dream, dream dream dream..."
Speaking of making it big, of manifest (revealed) destiny:
The American Dream [החלום האמריקאי] <---> hamikra hu l'chaim [המקרא הוא לחיים]
Sounds like a blessing! You know that "new sound" you looking for?
The Bakersfield Sound...
Just dial area code Esther (661). H/t to Marvin Berry and the Starlighters.
If it weren't in the Megillah, who would believe it?
Kol Bakersfield [קול בייקרספילד ] = 642, which first appears appears in the Mikra at Gen 1:15 --
Gen 1
14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth [להאיר על־הארץ]; and it was so:
Behold, I have again dreamed a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me:
Well, I hope you come and see me in the movie
Then I'll know that you will plainly see
The biggest fool that's ever hit the big time
And all I gotta do is act naturally
Miss Hollywood can tell you that it's all in there, even as seen on TV:
The Beverly Hillbillies theme song - lyrics on screen
Set a spell...
take yer shoes off..
y'all come back now, hear?
In the biography About Buck.,[4] Rich Kienzle writes: "'Buck' was a donkey on the Owens farm." "When Alvis Jr. was three or four years old, he walked into the house and announced that his name also was "Buck."
Buck was a donkey. One dollar! It's in the movies, that
big bet... about trading places:
We'll make a scene about a man that's sad and lonely
And begging down upon his bended knee..
Remember him, begging? Even stealing food! He was also one of the brothers who was on a mission from God. And also the other one, down on his knees begging (It wasn't my fault!)
16. And God made two great lights; the large light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night; and he made the stars:
17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth[להאיר על־הארץ]:
There's a way out of this parking lot. I saw it in the movies. Do you have a Miss Piggy? ;)
Peruse later.
If the prophets hadn’t been killed (redefined out of existence), people might know how much they’ve been saying all along, all day every day, from every rooftop.
It’s a very loud chorus. Famous hits, iconic songs, movies, all over the place.
Remember Dion and The Belmonts?
This song is the story of Joseph, crying for his beloved brothers. It’s pure speech because Dion didn’t mean it that way.
Listen:
A Teenager in Love —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgnEDi7bq0
Each night he asked the stars up above,
“Why must I be a teenager in love?”
A: God sent him on ahead for a great deliverance, to save life.
There’ve been a couple recent threads, speculation about how God deals with time.
Uh, ahem.
And how many book$ have been about the location of the Ark of the Covenant? Yet the average Joe on the street can say right off the top of his head.
It’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the *living* God.
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