Tehillim Chs. 42-43 by Ilana Stein | Rabbi Sacks' Favourite Song and Epitaph

Rabbi Sacks' Favourite Song and EpitaphMany many times has the 929 corresponded eerily with other events happening. But I have not had one like this before.In 1991, Dr Jonathan Sacks, then chief rabbi elect of the United Kingdom was the guest on a deeply beloved British radio show, Desert Island Disks, in which guests are asked to select the songs they would take with them to a desert island. One of Rabbi Sacks' choices was the famous niggun צמאה נפשי לאלהים my soul years for you, the living God which is taken from today's 929. These words come from Tehillim 63 but are pre-empted in today's chapterWhen at the end of the interview, he was asked which one would he pick if he had to choose just one, he said, it would be צמאה נפשי - for he hopes that one day such a line would be his epitaph - that it could be said of him when he died that his soul yearned for God.צָמְאָ֬ה נַפְשִׁ֨י ׀ לֵאלֹהִים֮ לְאֵ֪ל חָ֥י מָתַ֥י אָב֑וֹא וְ֝אֵרָאֶ֗ה פְּנֵ֣י אֱלֹהִֽים׃my soul thirsts for God, the living God; O when will I come to appear before GodThe whole interview of R Sacks' favourite songs can be listened to at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093z8bThis is Berry Sacharov and Yonatan Razal's rendering of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxGVmYJ5pw Ilana Stein shares her wisdom on both ch.42 and 43 which are considered by many to be a single unit. Text here: www.sefaria.org/Psalms.42, www.sefaria.org/Psalms.43