Matisyahu uses lots of Biblical imagery in his songs, and especially in this one. The way I see it, a lot of it is his personal relationship with god with references to the Bible within the song. For example, he uses the word Hashem, meaning 'the name' in Hebrew in place of the name of G-d and references heavily to the Exodus of the Jews of Egypt, or Mitzrayim as he calls it, meaning Egypt in Hebrew. He also references the Exodus through the story of the Nile, the role of the Pharoah within traditional Egyptology, and the reference to the 'humble one on Mt Sinai'. Within Exodus it is written that Moses had the two tablets of the 10 Commandments bestowed upon him on Mount Sinai in the Sinai peninisula. He also says the Shma, the first prayer in the song 'Shma, Yisraeyael etc' with the translation given. He encourages to find God and reveals it's the Chabad, or the Orthodox Judaism, which is the deepest 'well spring'.
@taffistani Chabad isnt akin to Orthodox judaism. Rather, it's a very specific sub-branch of the Hassidic movement. a Popular one indeed, yet still a sub-branch. The Orthodox movement as a whole is gigantic, and a lot of it dissmisses the very basic notions of Hassidut (Hassidism) - no guru (rebbe), and far more strict studying.
@taffistani Chabad isnt akin to Orthodox judaism. Rather, it's a very specific sub-branch of the Hassidic movement. a Popular one indeed, yet still a sub-branch. The Orthodox movement as a whole is gigantic, and a lot of it dissmisses the very basic notions of Hassidut (Hassidism) - no guru (rebbe), and far more strict studying.
Matisyahu uses lots of Biblical imagery in his songs, and especially in this one. The way I see it, a lot of it is his personal relationship with god with references to the Bible within the song. For example, he uses the word Hashem, meaning 'the name' in Hebrew in place of the name of G-d and references heavily to the Exodus of the Jews of Egypt, or Mitzrayim as he calls it, meaning Egypt in Hebrew. He also references the Exodus through the story of the Nile, the role of the Pharoah within traditional Egyptology, and the reference to the 'humble one on Mt Sinai'. Within Exodus it is written that Moses had the two tablets of the 10 Commandments bestowed upon him on Mount Sinai in the Sinai peninisula. He also says the Shma, the first prayer in the song 'Shma, Yisraeyael etc' with the translation given. He encourages to find God and reveals it's the Chabad, or the Orthodox Judaism, which is the deepest 'well spring'.
@taffistani Chabad isnt akin to Orthodox judaism. Rather, it's a very specific sub-branch of the Hassidic movement. a Popular one indeed, yet still a sub-branch. The Orthodox movement as a whole is gigantic, and a lot of it dissmisses the very basic notions of Hassidut (Hassidism) - no guru (rebbe), and far more strict studying.
@taffistani Chabad isnt akin to Orthodox judaism. Rather, it's a very specific sub-branch of the Hassidic movement. a Popular one indeed, yet still a sub-branch. The Orthodox movement as a whole is gigantic, and a lot of it dissmisses the very basic notions of Hassidut (Hassidism) - no guru (rebbe), and far more strict studying.