HIGHLIGHTS: Timpani of the Gods by Evan Cartwright, Harp of Clear Seeing by Sarah Pagé. Melody by Hanna Tiferet Siegel.  "All my bones shall say, 'Incomparable'…"


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The lines of Mi Chamocha are excerpted from “Song of the Sea,” or Shirat Hayam, a poem which appears in Exodus just after the Israelites escape slavery in Egypt. Their feet still wet from crossing the Red Sea, which had split open on their behalf (a supernatural tailwind to assist in their brave ascent to freedom), they break into song, acknowledging the incomparable wonder they have just experienced. 

The suddenness with which they were catapulted out of slavery unleashed havoc and doubt. They had barely made it outside the city gates when they realized they were being pursued, their freedoms in danger of being annulled. The voices of their masters, the sting of their discipline, were the authorities that had commanded the trajectory of their grueling days for as long as they could remember, for generations. Suddenly each person in the caravan was faced with vast swaths of unknowable desert, figurative and literal. In the face of that fearsome expanse, the song asks, “Who is like You, YHVH, compared to the powers humans worship?” This question becomes both a balm and a riddle to turn over and over through forty years of desert wandering. 

מִי כָמֹֽכָה בָּאֵלִם יְהֹוָה מִי כָּמֹֽכָה נֶאְדָּר בַּקֹּֽדֶשׁ נוֹרָא תְהִלֹּת עֹֽשֵׂה פֶלֶא


Who is like You, YHVH, compared to the powers humans worship? 
Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, doing wonders?

Daniela Gesundheit - Who is Like You / Mi Chamocha  מי כמכה

Non-denominational devotional pop music from Toronto / Los Angeles. 

Daniela Gesundheit - Who is Like You / Mi Chamocha מי כמכה

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