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To the Chief Musician On Dances

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A Psalm.

By CHAIM NACHMAN BIALICK

Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by
JACOB V. ARIEL. B. A.
Author of Plays for All the Year Round in Hebrew.

There is a God in heaven,
Almighty God, Whom to please
We'll lift up high our feet
And dance with strength and ease.

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And the wrath of our aching soul,
Our burning heart's distress,
Unrestrained shall forth he poured
In a dance of storm and stress.

And fearful lightning and thunder
Shall follow in your dance's wake
To cause the earth to tremble,
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The skies with dread to shake.
"To the Chief Musician on Dances, f or mice, is wroth w
or remaining unshaken in their boy-
a I'salm," is one of the poems which f
(klupint and Chupim,, refrain.)
Ity to their chosen God, notwithstand
Bialick wrote during the recent war.
ng His default of fulfilling His part
Its title is like that of many a psalm
oil,
no milk, nor honey;
No
of the covenant .. .
of the Psalms of David. Its Hebrew
Of wine, old or new, not a drop ;—
Indeed, the whole poem reads lik e
form is such as might be expected, as
then, the cup of poison
would be adopted by a modern David, an indictment preferred aganist Him, But Is
there, still full to the top.
if one may say so, ill which the poet
Asaph, or Son of Korah.
enumerates—by far not all the
It would seem that in writing this charges, for the poem would then be Then tip and with arm untrembling
Drain it at once to the dregs;
poem, Bialick had in mind the hun- as long as the Jewish Goluth—but
All cry: "For life and health!"
dreds of thousands of Jews who lived
01=01=10=0 within fifty miles from the border line, some charges of a recent date. How-
And sprightly raise your legs.
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ever, in order that he may not appear
or shifting battle front occupied by blasphemous, for in a sense, Bialick
0
the Russian army, who due to the is very Jewishly religious, he couches And fiercer your dance shall grow,
Your feet shall swifter rebound;
hazards of war and pogroms were the indictment in the form of a psalm,
p
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forced to evacuate their homes and as if he were urging the survivors of Brighter your faces shall glow,
Your voices shall louder resound.
haphazardly flee to—whither?
these tribulations to render their
The vision of tens of thousands of praises and blessings to God for all
men, women, and children, old and that they have received from His And neither foe shall know,
Nor friend shall ever gauge
sick, packed away in freight cars and hand. But with what a withering
What's rankling within your heart
O kept there locked up without provi- wrath rankling in his own heart!
Consumed with terror and rage.
sion of, or access to, food, water, and
The psalmistic form adopted by the
air, and for days not allowed to leave poet is indeed very appropriate. For
thdupim and Chopin, refrain.)
the cars or have food brought to them, 1 the poet addresses himself in parti-
so that many thousands fell victims to lcular to the Chassidim, or extra-pious No coat, no shoe, nor shirt
starvation, suffocation, and contagious I Jews, as they style themselves, who
Our nakedness to veil—
diseases, was the poet's nightmare for the most part were inhabitants of No matter. Why fuss over nothing?
asleep or awake. The heart rending Russian Poland and Galicia, where
More clothes greater weight entail.
cries of those who were driven to the the bloody hand of the Russian com-
woods where they lived upon, or rather mander fell heavily upon them.
Unburdened, naked and barefoot
died of, such nourishment as could be
We'll be light as eagles on wing;
To the Chassidim in particular. Fo r
obtained there, herbs and berries, and
the poet has a vision of the Temple We shall soar ever higher and higher,
froze to death from lack of clothes
To the clouds we'll firmly cling.
glory: the priests reading
and shelter, were ever ringing in his in all its glor
turnin g incense on the
ears and clamoring for a word of the oracle, or
altar; choirs of Levites chanting, Swift we shall fly with the storm;
sympathy and consolation, as help an d
praises; other groups performing re-' We shall cross with the furious gale
rescue were out of the question. All
ligious dances to the accompaniment Over seas tempestuous and heaving
the comfort and solace the poet could
of bands of music conducted by the With plagues, ill-fortune and wail.
offer was to say that God will help
them if they put their trust in Him Chief Musician, the master of cere- Dance we with shoes or without,
monies, and urged by him to perform
. . But will Ile help them? Has He
All the some we shall meet ou
helped them in the past? Here the their various part of playing, singing,
doom;
poet's soul rises in revolt against and dancing with all their might. Into Be this or that our lot,—
this
Temple,
the
poet
transports
the
God's method of treating His chosen
All dances lead but to the tomb.
homeless,
starving,
and
fugitive
Chas-
people; here, it would seem, the poet
s idim and substitutes them for the
(Hopis and Chupim, refrain.)
Levites. For it is they, the Chassidim,
with their more intense, emotional,
No
brother,
redeemer, nor kin,
and mystical mode of praying rather
Nor friend your cause to defend;
than the objectors to such a manner
None,
whom
favors to beg,
of worship, who are known as the
None, on whom to depend—
Misnagdim—that come nearest to the

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Levites.
So let us join hands together,
For a full understanding of the
Let us one another embrace;
poem ‘ one must bear in mind the three Then, strung and brave as ever,
mental and spiritual characteristics
We shall look our doom in the face.
which distinguish the Chassidim from
their opponents, the Misnagdim. But Let feet and sandals be mingled
it must be remembered that outward-
As madly all twirl around;
ly, too, the Chassid has his mark, And about the youth's black curls
namely, the long gaberdine, and the
The sage's gray locks shall be P,
long, curling side-looks, to which last,
wound.
as well as to his frequent use of strong
wine as part of the service, allusion And thus let the circle of dancers
is made in the poem. Wheel round in an endless chain;
First, then, the Chassidim are ex- First turn forward, then backward, ss
tremely fervent in the prayers, some-
Then once more, and all over again. I
times working themselves up into a
spiritual ardor by purely physical
(kluplm and Chupitn• refrain.)
means, such as swaying the body, wav-
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ing and slapping hands, and dancing. No land of your own, no home,
This last may be performed singly or Nor shelter over your head;—
in groups as on festival occasions. Yet, if homeless, why such fear?
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get better results by going into the And bless Him Who made this earth
opposite extreme, that of standing
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Whereon His people may rest.
still as a statue and allowing their
whole being to become absorbed in the And bless Him Who for a roof
single thought of communion with God
Created us a sky;
or the angels.)
Who to light our aimless wand'ring
Secondly, the Chassidim are taught
Has hung His sun on high.
to maintain implicit and unconditional
faith in the wisdom and goodness of And bless Him for His other great
God under the severest trials. What-
favors,
ever God does is for the best, and
Rewards and recompenses;
praise is due to Him even for evil.
Halleluyah, then, with trumpets, ,
Thirdly, the Chassidim are inclined
Halleluyah, then, with dances.
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towards the fantastic, miraculous, and
mystical even without the synagogue.
(Hopis, and Chupim, refrain.)
Instead of learning the Talmud with
its hard facts and problems of life, No Crown, no Source, no Splendor,
the Chassid will rather study the Zo-
No Excellence, nor Glory—(')
I /
har, or other books of Cabala, in medi- Are all the Channels stopped?
Trust in God and never worry.
tating upon which he can give his
fancy free rains to speculate upon the
origin and purpose of the universe; Our Guard does not slumber or sleep,
the numbers, size and age of the mil-
Of His faithful will He take heed;
lions of angels, and their functions; As He feeds the dogs and crows
the glory of God; the place of the
Likewise us too will He feed.
Throne, its shape and crystalline
transparency; above all, the relations While we with leaping prances
between men and the angels,'and the
And with fervent hymn and song
means of gaining their favor. These Will endeavor to set aright
and other contemplations of a mystical
The numbers we counted wrong
nature are the Chassid's delight.
We have furnished finished
These are the three outstanding
lumber for some of the finest
Chassidic virtues. Not that the Mis• And let this dance of death
nagdim are destitute of them, or do
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song
of dire
distress,
complete
atonement
Be our
latter do not regard them in the light B For the laws we did transgress.
of virtues, or of particular piety,
(Mupim and Chupim, refrain.)
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Bearing these virtues in mind, the No mercy, no justice, nor vengeance
poet in his vision is himself the Chief Consuming the murderous throng—

Musician,
with
Chassidim
as the
Levites. Ile,
the the
poet,
more than
the Then why stand ye stiff and silent?
Give ye the dumb a tongue!
other perfrmers, knows the futility of
prayer in the face of such a calamity, Give ye the foot a tongue!
and the incongruity of praises and
And her anger's flame shall roar
thanks therefor. His heart is bleed-
ing, and his soul is burning at the And of outrage and wrong to you done
Let it tell the stones of the floor.
I sight of the havoc wrought among his
I people. 0, could he but avenge his
people's blood! But his rage is im- And your dance shall be as of mad-
men,
potent, his anger powerless, and while
Growing hotter with each gyration
he can hardly restrain his lips from
Till
ye
net
your surroundings on fire
uttering curses and imprecations, he
Of gruesome conflagration.
must urge his people to be grateful
and duly render their praises, for he
Yea, mad with the dance and the roar,
I is the Chief Musician . . .
As the drum its thunder rolls,
The only weapon left to the poet is
irony, the irony of the situation. Many Your heads shall at last be dashed
Against the deaf stone walls!
a passage in this poem, nay, the poem
as a whole, is cutting mercilessly deep
(Mupim and Chupim, refrain.)
into the heart with their ironical al-
lusions and phrases, as if instead of l • ) These names ar• cabalistic attributes
to God, which %%%%% as channel. through
endeavoring to heal the wounds, to
which the prayers may be made to flow
alleviate the sufferings, the poet were
directly to His very throne . . .
anxious to remind the afflicted of the
uselessness of their efforts and (..) Beginning with the second day of
Pasvover, forty•nine days are counted. the
struggles, of the disappointments of
fiftieth being the Feast of Weeks. Now.
their hopes in the past, so as to de-
according to the Zohar. for eseer one of
prive them even of the little solace
these days there is a separate set of an-
gel, attending on the Almighty. It le coy
and comfort that they might derive
to Imagine the confusion and disorder that
from the hope for a better future.
would arise out of counting the wrong
Indeed, through all this poem, one can
number and •ssIgnIng one day's set of
angels to another day that belongs to •
almost hear the ring of that hollow,
different gro p of angels. All the heavens
cadaverous-sounding Mephistophelian
would be in an uproar . .
laughter, "What fools men be!"
I So deep and heavy was the despair
that overwhelmed the poet at the sight
ANTI-ZIONISM URGED
of the evil fate that hart overtaken
his people. Let us hope brighter times
BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)--IRefusal to
are in store for the Jewish people, and participate in the Palestine recon-
when they come, we may be sure of struction work was expressed in a
our poet to give us a psalm of cheer resolution adopted at the annual
and gladness.
meeting of the Zentral Verein
Deutscher Buerger des Juedischen
Mupim and Chupim,
Glaubens, an anti-Zionist body in
Beat your drum and your gong!
Germany. The resolution was adopt-
Millelly, Gillelly,
ed following a heated discussion on
Blow your flute and your horn!
the question of the participation in
Rasp ye, 0 harps,
the Keren Hayesod collections in
With your strings loose and torn!
Germany. The resolution urged the
Courage! I tell you,
80,000 members of the Verein to re-
A plague take this throng!
frain from participation, because this
(Supposedly • folk song.)
work is of "a nationalistic charac-
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No meat, no fish, nor cake;
Nor have we a morsel of bread
The wise weighs his words on the
But why be dismayed? Lay hand
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