Singing songs! Using your voice box as a musical instrument not needing to play a violin, sweet song belted out loudly or quietly in a wishful wonderful whisper, whatever is your choice, it is up to you! To feel this song in your gut as others sing songs to you, for only you to hear, singing as a way to communicate, singing as a way to feel peace, love and meditation.
Singing long verses of words of the Hebrew language, having "tefillah" the Hebrew words of songs memorized, sitting quietly in a chair, closing your eyes to block all bright light, to put your three fingers in a "Shin" sign on your forehead, to sing the holiest prayer ever created: The Shema, and to feel its essence. To feel the peace of this song, this prayer, that simply says "G-D is One." Echad being the Hebrew word for ONE, the oneness of G-D, G-D not being a multiple milieu of confusing gods in mythology. Praying using song to A ONE G-D, a G-D we can all understand, no confusion of thought, no confusion in the heart or mind.
This repetitive singing, chanting, expressing yourself in the Hebrew language, a prayer on your lips at all times, a musical beat to accompany the natural beats in your heart, a melody, a way to feel G-D.
A way to praise G-D, to thank G-D.
A Rabbi who sings your Hebrew name along with your Father's and Mother's Hebrew names when he calls you up for Aliyah, your name sung in beautiful notes wonderfully above the din! Your name not scolded instead by a parent, your name becoming song, sweet melodic great incredible singing of songs!
Having ownership of your name as it legally belongs to you, a birth certificate as a legal document that declares your name, possessing a name that is so beautiful deservingly sung to G-D to ask Him to help you. A name becoming an aria, a name that is good, a name to remember, a name with a history, a story behind a name, a Prophet in The Torah having your same name.
Singing in Hebrew, over and over again in your mind soothing to your thoughts, quietly to yourself so no one hears, or loudly to an abating audience.
Singing holy several thousand year old songs, songs that led large armies into battle for wars to win to overcome evil, songs after a battle won, becoming songs of peace, all people after a war can feel this peace, one side defeated while the other dances, dancing to songs, a song for all to learn to mend broken hearts.
The SHEMA, the greatest of all songs, the greatest of all prayers, always there for you on the tip of your tongue, a song to wake you up in the morning and a song to put you to sleep at night, a gentle lullaby.
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