Kol d’ma•ma da•ka, a thin silence
And I thought the words mattered!
I have taken to listening to Rabbis talking. They love to get into the text as do theologians generally so they tend to speak a lot of Hebrew. I was having a moment when I was thinking, “Isn’t great to know the original language in which the text was written.” I felt a tad envious.
Later in my moments of quiet, I was contemplating this when I felt, as I do, God speak to me. He mentioned verse 12 from 1 Kings chapter 19, ‘a still small voice’.
It wasn’t words that mattered it was the stillness, the smallness of the voice. A voice doesn’t even need words. And then paradoxically I thought I am going to look up the original Hebrew.
And to my surprise it is quite at variance with the English translation meaning not voice but ‘a thin silence’. Now let me show off, the Hebrew is pronounced ‘kol d’ma•ma da•ka’ at least according to the link below.
https://hebrew.jerusalemprayerteam.org/sound-thin-silence/
What I also found stimulating was the author suggested the word bleed and silence in Hebrew is connected. I began to think, what sound do we hear when someone bleeds or we shed a tear? A thin silence? The language of God?
Best day,
g
PS vid below
