That last line is the kicker — it’s Na’aseh v’Nishma, Exodus twenty-four seven, flipped. The whole song is built on Rashi’s comment in Tractate Shabbat about the Israelites accepting Torah before understanding it. This is exactly the “doing out of love” the title names.
“Your walking after Him in the desert, in a land not sown — forty days and forty nights, sometimes down, sometimes up, and the soul isn’t enough for it until it shines like stars at night.”
Then the chorus: “We walked with You in wholeheartedness, as those who do out of love — and we relied on You, only You, that You wouldn’t lead us on a journey we couldn’t bear.”
Our is like no other story in history, The Lord Is God
32 Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?
33 Has any other people heard the voice of God[a] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? 34 Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
It closes with “forty days and forty nights, one up, seven down, and we didn’t ask why — we put ‘we will do’ before ‘we will hear.'”
That last line is the kicker — it’s Na’aseh v’Nishma, Exodus twenty-four seven, flipped. The whole song is built on Rashi’s comment in Tractate Shabbat about the Israelites accepting Torah before understanding it. This is exactly the “doing out of love” the title names.
In a time of such great hatred in the world I see the goodness of Hashem every day and every hour.
I would like you ask yourself a question. Have you ever listened to the Jewish Bible? Ask a Jew and we will share our story with you becuase it belongs to you too.
Hazan Gavriel ben David