{"id":5621,"date":"2020-08-23T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rabbishefagold.com\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T01:09:43","slug":"how-beautiful-hinach-yafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/how-beautiful-hinach-yafah\/","title":{"rendered":"How Beautiful: Hinach yafah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hinach yafah rayati, hinach yafah<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HowBeautiful_inHebrew.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"38\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5619\" \/><br \/>\nHow Beautiful you are my friend, how beautiful!<br \/>\n(Song of Songs 1:15 and 4:1)<\/p>\n<p>Love opens my heart to the beauty that surrounds me and is in me. In seeing that beauty, my heart is opened to love. This practice teaches me that it\u2019s not enough to see beauty. It is the expression of my appreciation for what is beautiful that opens me to love. <\/p>\n<p>In this practice, I chant these words in 3 ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, I sing a love-song to the beauty in my life- to the color, light and fragrance, to the unique shapes and sounds that make up my world, to the faces, flowers, art, landscapes and subtle splendors- I raise my voice in thanks and appreciation. I do this with my eyes closed, calling up image after image.<\/li>\n<li>With the 2nd way I chant this, I open my eyes and see the beauty before me. If I\u2019m with other people I look into their faces. I open my eyes to the beauty that was always there waiting for me in the simple lines and textures of the room I sit in, and I sing myself awake to receive that beauty.<\/li>\n<li>With the 3rd way, I close my eyes and imagine that God, the Beloved, is singing this to me. I receive this acknowledgment, and move through the contradiction, remembering that I often don\u2019t feel like I can ever live up to society\u2019s version of beautiful. When God sings this to me, I open to the truth of my own unique beauty. Through that knowing, I step out of my small, self-conscious shame and into my power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To view context from Shir HaShirim through the <span style=\"color: #8b0000;\"><strong>Love at the Center<\/strong><\/span> project, click <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/shs-vayetze\/\">Shir HaShirm (Vayetze)<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/shir-hashirim-pekuday\/\">Shir HaShirim (Pekuday)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To hear the chant, use the audio player. To download the chant, right-click the note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Beautiful &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HowBeautiful_HinachYafah.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MP3Note.png\" alt=\"Right-click to download the MP3 file.\" width=\"40\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2192\" \/><\/a> <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5621-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HowBeautiful_HinachYafah.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HowBeautiful_HinachYafah.mp3\">https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HowBeautiful_HinachYafah.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To download the PDF file for this chant, click <a href=\"https:\/\/v4f0lgl183f.c.updraftclone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HowBeautiful.pdf\">How Beautiful<\/a>. <!--For the musical notation, see <em>The Magic of Hebrew Chant<\/em>, page 309.--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><em>Shir Delight: A Journey Through the Song of Songs<\/em> \u00a92004 Rabbi Shefa Gold. All rights reserved.<\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinach yafah rayati, hinach yafah How Beautiful you are my friend, how beautiful! (Song of Songs 1:15 and 4:1) Love opens my heart to the beauty that surrounds me and is in me. In seeing that beauty, my heart is opened to love. This practice teaches me that it\u2019s not enough to see beauty. 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