A Soulful Journey

" Two people are charged with the task of recognizing a face in the darkness. One lights a candle and examines the face to identify it. The other, without a candle, trains himself to identify people by the sound of their voices alone. The first person achieves a clearer recognition, by sight, than the other can, merely by sound. However, the second person has taught himself a new talent, of listening to the voice of the other. And when dawn breaks, the first person will extinguish his candle but will be none the wiser as a result of his nocturnal experience; while the other will emerge from it with a newly developed capacity for listening as a channel of recognition." -  Rabbi Yizchak Hutner, Pachad Yitzhak, Translation Aviva Zornberg Watch with your eyes but listen with  your mind.

"What I have noticed as the years accumulate is that inevitably we return to our early impulses and investigate them again in our maturity.  And we see why it was that we had such a powerful reaction to...certain sounds and why it is that I associate powerful emotions with certain sounds."  -Singer, song-writer, Paul Simon 9/12/93 New York Times Our tradition reminds us that the path always leads home, the place where we originated.  No matter how far we travel, home beckons.