Shostakovich said: "It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, 'Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing.' " I understood none of this when I was an adolescent enthralled with Leonard Bernstein's 1959 recording with the New York Philharmonic.
"You were supposed to be better than that!" But he wasn't, and so in art as in life you take what you need, cast off what harms you and go your way rejoicing.
To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.
In others, raising your hand and rejoicing loudly is sometimes common.
The Isaiah Stone, located under Robinson's Arch, has a carved inscription in Hebrew from Isaiah 66:14: וראיתם ושש לבכם ועצמותיכם כדשא תפרחנה ("And when ye see this your heart shall rejoice and your bones shall flourish like an herb").
In the world you will be sorrowful, but when I see you again, your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you' (Jn. 16:21622).
It is so valuable, especially if you choose a good one and they end up teaching you everything and then rejoicing in your success.
You start rejoicing in your independence.
As you head into the stadium, rejoicing over your good fortune, you're told there has been a change.
How do you get the world to start rejoicing in your new fruit?
