On concerts, football and prayer
Have you ever had that feeling of chills down your spine, atingling feeling on the back of your neck while at a concert or at a football game? Your band is coming on to play your favorite song and 75,000 people are joining in all the words. Vinateri is kicking the Super-bowl winning field goal with 0.03 left on the clock.
You sense that feeling of unity, the togetherness, the common purpose. Berov Am Hadras Melech. Voices as one, a harmony of song, mass exultation. That feeling of being part of a momentous moment, a life changing event. Tomorrow will not be the same as yesterday, all because of today.
You are a part of something great, something huge, something that stretches across boundaries, crushing borders in its wake. Forging relationships across nations, worlds that could never normally meet. Standing as one, before G-d, together.
Have you ever?
TRK
posted by TRK @ 5:02 AM
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9 Comments:
Good to see you havent deserted us.
I felt like that at the Matis gig on Monday. I hope youare going to one coming up - he seems to be going all over in the next month.
why do guys always use sports analogies? sorry, but football leaves me cold. maybe MAYBE...i could relate to the start spangled banner at a baseball game...or the olympics.
Yes:
At various Jet games, at a Jimmy Page/Black Crows concert, at various points during Neillah on Yom kippur, At a Mets playoff game against the Bulls, watching theRangers Stanley Cup win against the Canucks, dancing at weddings, hanging out with my friends in a college dorm at 2:00 ijn the morning, at the kotel on Yom haatzmaut, at the kotel for birchas kohanim on Succos - Just to name a few
waking up to the sound of the shofar in elul.
elster, lrh - wow...you guys are good! so much imagery.
MH
mata:
Sports and men. Unfortunately, if you aren't a guy, it's difficult to relate. Since I am not female, I wouldn't dare try and find the women's sports equal. But for my wife, the equivilant of me seeing the New York Jets win the super bowl might be spending 10,000 on a shopping spree at a fancy mall (not that se ever has, or will do this).
Last time I felt that thrill it was before a school or camp performance. The togetherness, comraderie, excitement, anticipation.... being part of a group.
Not to sound like a right-wing dweeb, lulei demistafina, but the Siyum Hashas was like that.
And, oh yes! Who can forget all of Israel greeting Natan Sharansky at the Kotel when he was released from the Soviet gulag.
TRK; this summer before the disengagement, there was an atzeret tefilla at the Kotel. It was packed all the way to Sha'ar Yaffo. There were easily more than 200,000 people. And we all said Shma together.
You want something to send a tingle down your spine of unity and togetherness? That was it. When more than 200,000 Jews were saying Ani Maamin together, and being Mikabel Ol Malchut Shamayim, THAT was one of the most spiritual events I can recall.
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