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Carved with Breath
Bringing Forth the Voice

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Comma (voices)Carved with Breath


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Track 4: 0:00-3:09

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Bringing Forth the Voice

Joseph Zitt

"Twenty-two foundation letters: They are engraved with voice, carved with breath, and placed in the mouth in five places..." (Sefer Yetzirah 2:3)
The voices move through five sets of consonants (as grouped in the verse in the Sefer Yetzirah) and their associated vowels (as indicated in Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's commentary):
In the throat:
Aleph, Khet, He, Ayin (vowel: a)
In the palate:
Gimel, Yod, Kaph, Quf (vowel: e)
In the tongue:
Daled, Tet, Lamed, Nun, Tav (vowel: o)
In the teeth:
Zayin, Samekh, Shin, Resh, Tzaddi (vowel: i)
In the lips:
Bet, Vav, Mem, Peh (vowel: u)
Over the course of the piece, the voices move gradually from spoken and whispered sounds to full "singing", and shift into the next piece at the end. Decorative Bar

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