Leonard Cohens Vision – one of four new courses offered by Project Zug. Leonard Cohen on his song Who By Fire, inspired by the prayer Unetane Tokef, in 1979: The melody is if not actually stolen, is certainly derived from the melody that I heard in the synagogue as a boy. But of course, the conclusion of the song, as I write it, is somewhat different: Who shall I say is calling? Well, that is what makes the song into a prayer for me in my terms, which is who is it or what is it that determines who will live and who will die? What is the source of this great furnace of creation? Who lights it? Who extinguishes it? https://youtube/watch?v=CvEgJ9iT3t0
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:48:21 +0000