Before One Reads the Torah

Music: Ogive No. 3
By Erik Satie. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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Before one reads the Torah, one must be Alight with love of G-d, as though a flame Took refuge in the temple of a heart* Made pure by discipline and holy deeds. If one read only thus, then one would see The meaning of the meaning, as the art Zealously sustains those souls who read Vested in the glory of The Name. All of life and death is here in this: How much one grasps depends on who one is. *For bar mitzvahs, read: "Resplendent found its refuge in a heart"