Songwriter’s Havdalah
In this session, we entered the space to The Beatles’ Here Comes The Sun, reviewed Genesis 1:1-4, Sforno’s commentary on Genesis 1:4, William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43,
Drash
Here comes the sun…and the moon, and the stars, the day, and the night. All separated by purpose and necessity. Each entity providing it’s own creative force. Alternating, perhaps battling for dominance, the goodness of light and the difficultly of darkness is acknowledged endlessly in both religious and secular texts. Darkness is often described in desolating terms, but is not deprived of creative force nor purpose. Clarity comes in the night through rested eyes as easily as in the brightness of day.
Thought Starters
What are some sources of “original” light that guide our creation of the world we live in? Given the context of original light, what role does original darkness play in our ability to build the structures (family, work, activism, etc.) in which we conduct our lives?
Despite the textual juxtapositions of light and darkness, with darkness being described in somewhat negative terms (void, chaos, lonely, cold), how can we, like Shakespeare, contextualize darkness in a place of positivity rather than strict necessity?
Creation is depicted as both instantaneous and multi-phasal, but in all instances incomplete. Does the essence of entropy ever cease in the process of creation?
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