Episode Five: The Song of Moses, with Peter Himmelman

One thing that makes the book of Deuteronomy so remarkable is its ability to seamlessly blend together sweeping speeches about morality and meaning with a host of seemingly mundane laws. And that, argues our guest this week, the writer and musician Peter Himmelman, is why we still keep coming back to it, seeking a way to balance out the sublime and the humdrum in our own lives. Moses himself shows us the way forward, Himmelman argues, by instructing us not to see or touch but to listen, an admission that music and sound possess the capacity to unlock our greatest spiritual mysteries.

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