Friday, July 4, 2008

"A fundamental unity"


"Rabbi Nachman of Breslav is said to have declared that if people were really able to hear his teaching, the melody as well as the words, the dance of it, they would be released from the bondage of reality.


In other words, the same idea can be expressed in words, in music, in movement.

There is a basic ground for correspondence of things, a fundamental unity behind the variety of modes of expression or symbols."

--Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

From In the Beginning by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, "Elixir of Life" pg. 188