I wrote a second in my series of limericks last week. It was inspired by the words of Cantor Eli Schleifer, head of the School of Sacred Music here at HUC Jerusalem. During services one morning, he employed a fitting musical metaphor to express the relationship between innovation and tradition, and the value of both:
The psalmist says: "Sing a new song";
And we do, for it makes us belong.
This can cause some anxiety,
Even verge on impiety.
But forgetting the old -- that's what's wrong.
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