FROM HEBREW LETTERS, MUSIC
I happened to catch a TV show on one of the religious channels about a week ago that had ‘Music from God’ as its topic. An Israeli teacher of Hebrew, Uri Harel, held a belief that the Bible contained music, in keeping with an old Jewish tradition about the Hebrew letters somehow playing a part in the creation of the world by God.
A project was initiated whereby a musical note was associated with each Hebrew letter, and then certain passages in the Bible were converted into sequenced notes and arranged into music that was then performed and recorded.
Just as there is a tradition that certain of the Psalms in Hebrew have a healing effect when listened to, so do people hearing the results of the letters-notes-music project report experiencing a calming effect. The associated website is
