When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.
MatisyahuThe religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
MatisyahuBefore I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
MatisyahuI don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
MatisyahuThere is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.
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