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The Observers song
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Hello.
Hey Yolish.
Is it true? I hear people saying that
everything in the world is affected by
the way you look at it.
Like if you observe something, it
actually behaves differently.
It's actually a proven scientific fact
in physics. It's called the observer
effect. At the quantum level, particles
act like messy waves of energy until
someone measures them. The moment you
look, that wave collapses into a solid
specific point.
So the act of looking forces the
universe to make decisions?
Exactly. You aren't just a passive
witness, you're a participant.
You know, this is making me think of
King David. Maybe that's what he meant
by the difference between mizmor and
shir.
That's a brilliant connection. Tell me
how you're seeing it.
Well,
mizmor feels like more like the wave,
the unstructured energy,
a song that is unstructured, just
raw emotions.
And shir is like a structured song with
lyrics.
I love that. In Hebrew, the root of
mizmor actually means to prune. So
you're describing the process of taking
that wild wave-like energy and trimming
it into a form.
Right.
So when he starts a prayer with mizmor
shir,
he's acting as the observer.
He's taking the chaotic energy of his
life,
the fear or the pain,
and by looking at it and naming it,
he collapses the wave into a structured
song.
He's not just reporting on his reality,
he's literally changing its nature. He's
taking the mizmor of his soul and
turning it into the shir of his life.
Exactly.
We're not helpless against the waves.
We're the ones who decide what the song
is going to be.