Water Above, Water Below

Expounding upon the Zohar, it is taught that

... the lower waters are
the wisdom of science.

The higher waters are
the wisdom of the Torah.

The higher waters
fertilize the lower waters,

while the lower waters
fertilize the higher waters.

What is Music from God?

Uri Harel

The Ba’al Shem Tov, founder of the Chassidic movement in 17th century, teaches that there are three dimensions of reality: The physical dimension which he calls “Worlds”, the human spiritual dimension he named “Souls,” and the divine dimension or “Divinity”. Each expresses its inherent wisdom in a special way that mankind can relate to.

The pure wisdom of “Worlds”–the material reality that we live in–is mathematics. Everything that is made of particles of matter and energy in the physical world can be expressed by measurable quantities, numbers and mathematical relationships. These organized patterns are also expressed in human speech, where words represent elaborate mathematical bits of information that are processed in one brain and then delivered to another in the form of sound symbols (words), only to be reprocessed to their original mathematical form.

The pure wisdom of the human spiritual existence or the expression of “Souls” is music. When we use math and organized patterns of speech we can communicate and understand ideas about the material world. But in order to be in tune with the wisdom of the human spirit we need something beyond words something that can communicate a higher level of understanding. When music corresponds with the way our brain is “wired”, it is in harmony with our “construction” and it causes us pleasure. We experience displeasure when it is “out of sync”.

Classical music like Mozart, Bach or Vivaldi express this kind of wisdom. This music relates directly to the soul itself. It is indeed based on the mathematical foundation of the material world, but expresses it intuitively. By doing so it bypasses the need to logically process the speech or the math that lies beneath it.

To illustrate this concept we could look at the way one computer communicates with another in a complicated mathematical language, faster than the human brain can comprehend. However, to communicate with humans computers use a language made of graphical symbols (icons) that translate their mathematics to something we can capture intuitively. By using these symbols it becomes unnecessary to resort to the logical and analytical mind, which could make the communication between computers and people extremely difficult. (Remember the DOS days ...?)

The wisdom of Divinity, the reality of God, is expressed in the Hebrew text of the Torah. Tradition tells us that the entire text of the Torah (in one long string of letters) can be seen as “one long name of God”, or the “formula for the entire creation” of the world. This kind of divine wisdom is clearly beyond our comprehension. Connecting with it requires a higher form of communication that can express not only the mathematical order of the physical world, but also the divine spheres that are reflected in the Hebrew text of the Bible.

This special form of communication is music that is based on the frequency and sequence of the Hebrew letters as they appear in the text of the Bible. This type of translation enables the brain to follow these pre-determined divine patterns without the need to use the analytical or logical powers of the brain. This is the level of pure experience that is beyond description or words.

On the material level, human music offers a universal language, allowing communication between people of different linguistic experience. On a higher level, music that reflects the organized patterns found in the Hebrew text of the Bible tunes us into the divine sphere.

The Music from God Project is dedicated to the translation of the Hebrew text of the Bible, letter by letter, into its corresponding frequency or musical note. By doing so, and by keeping the exact sequence of the text intact, a new music is discovered: music that is a reflection of wisdom and patterns beyond the mathematics of matter and energy, maybe beyond our understanding altogether.

How should we expect this new “music” to affect us? Will it be healing to our bodies and calming to our spirits as the Psalms of David are believed to be? Will it sharpen our thoughts? Develop our minds? Open the gates of our spiritual understanding, or simply draw more people to seek the wisdom emanating from the pages of the Bible?

Maybe it is too early to give a definitive answer to these questions. More work and research is needed in order to uncover the mystery. We are now just beginning to hear the music and experience the effects. For most of us, this experience is truly beyond words!