And then there was how people responded to her call: the women who told her how welcoming her blowing made the Rosh Hashanah service for them, the National Public Radio listeners who heard her speak of her passion for her instrument and her encounter with Gillespie, the Justice on Israel's Supreme Court—an Orthodox Jew no less—who invited her to blow the shofar at the court itself, the joggers in Central Park who slowed down and then stopped to watch when she accompanied Alicia Svigals on the klezmer violin, playing “Amazing Grace”.
然后人們就響應(yīng)了她的呼喚：女人們告訴她，她的吹奏使猶太新年禮拜有多受她們的歡迎，全國公共廣播電臺的聽眾聽到了她談到對這種樂器的熱愛，還有她和吉萊斯皮的相遇。以色列最高法院的法官——同樣是正統(tǒng)的猶太人——邀請她在法庭上吹奏羊角號，當(dāng)她給拉克萊茲默小提琴的艾麗西亞·斯維格爾斯伴奏《奇異恩典》時，中央公園的慢跑者們放慢了速度，停下來觀看。
Along with the birth of her sons, she liked to say that blowing the shofar brought her closer to God than anything else in her life. Even after her metastasing cancer meant the removal of a large partof both her lungs, she would take up her instrument with kavanah,“intention”, close her eyes, shut out the world and concentrate on her breath, her shofar, her soul. In the Old Testament the Book of Genesis says that God formed man out of dust from the ground when He blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Hebrew word for soul, neshama, is intimately connected to the word for breath.
她喜歡說，和她的兒子出生一樣，吹奏羊角號使她比生命中的任何東西都更接近上帝。即使在她的癌癥轉(zhuǎn)移意味著要切除她的大部分肺部之后，她會帶著卡瓦娜(意為“意圖”)，拿起她的樂器，閉上眼睛，與世隔絕，專注于她的呼吸、她的羊角號和她的靈魂。在《舊約·創(chuàng)世紀(jì)》中，當(dāng)上帝把生命的氣息吹進(jìn)他的鼻孔時，他就把地上的塵土變成了人。希伯來語中代表靈魂的單詞“neshama”與代表呼吸的單詞緊密相連。
Her breath had shushed her boys to sleep in their crib, it whooshed out of her whenever she jumped naked, as she liked to do, into a Canadian mountain lake, and it transported Adas Israel's congregation to Mount Sinai when it blew air into her shofar. That breath may have been stilled, but like Abraham's horn it lives on. At the start of her funeral, the shofar was sounded by her three sons.
她的呼吸曾使她的孩子們安靜地睡在嬰兒床上，每當(dāng)她光著身子跳的時候，它就從她嘴里呼出來，就像她喜歡做的那樣，它進(jìn)入了一個加拿大的高山湖泊，當(dāng)它把空氣吹進(jìn)她的羊角號時，它會把阿拉伯以色列的會眾帶到西奈山。呼吸可能已經(jīng)停止，但是就像亞伯拉罕的號角一樣，它依然存在。在她葬禮開始的時候，她的三個兒子吹響了羊角號。
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