Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

most can sing it back in ten minutes. Remember the little alphabet song in kindergarten, “A, B, C, D, E, F, G . . . ”? Knowledge is easier to remember when set to music and singing. I believe this is because knowledge passes through the mind first, afterward becoming part of the spirit. Music, however, moves us from the inside out. Music moves the inner part of a person, the spirit, as seen when David played his harp and Saul was delivered from an evil spirit (1 Sam. 16:23). Music and singing are important parts of Jewish worship today, just as they were in ancient Jewish worship. The Torah records the victorious song of Moses (Exod. 15) and a prophetic hymn at the conclusion of Moses’s ministry (Deut. 32). The Scriptures indicate that Deborah and Barak sang at the defeat of the Canaanites (Judg. 5). David was an expert harp player and was often called the sweet psalmist of Israel (1 Sam. 16:16–17). Solomon wrote thousands of proverbs and penned one thousand five songs (1 Kings 4:32). The tabernacle of David was a tent where continual worship went up to God (1 Chron. 15:1), and the temple of Solomon was filled with music and singing, including one hundred twenty trumpet players (2 Chron. 5:12). Instruments included trumpets, harps, and lyres, blending with the daily rituals of the house of God. In Israel, I was told that musical repetition was believed to be the method by which the ancient prophets taught their students in the schools of the prophets (2 Kings 2:3–7). The class was divided in half, as one group sang the Scriptures, and the second group repeated the words through chanting or singing. Three places to sing