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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged psalms.
An essay on the Shir HaMaalot — the fifteen Psalms of Ascent — as an itinerary of outward and inward pilgrimage toward Jerusalem, the city of peace.
Read essay →An essay on the ancient belief in a cosmic harmony underlying the universe, weaving together Pythagoreanism, the Hebrew psalmodic tradition, and the philosophia perennis around music as a path of knowledge and reverence.
Read essay →An essay on the Shimmush Tehillim, a Jewish tradition that ascribes to the Psalms powers of intercession and protection, and on the boundaries between devotion and the magic of the word.
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