Colors of Time - Lyrics
Stroke of brush
Green for love, red for might
Stroke of brush
Black for war,
Colors of time
How long do they last
They Come from the future
Disappear in the past
All my life’s made up
Of the flashing lights
Red and green
Black and white
They come go
And stay
But I loathe the day
When the color
Of Time
Turns grey
Turns grey
Turns grey
The composition “Colors of Time” is take from the “Shadow of Time” album.
Why did G-d create colors? I consider the answer to this and many other questions from the point of view of the necessity for the Creation and existence of Man.
Colors are a very important part of our information exchange with the world. They allow us to discern between different things, and they enable us to see boundaries. Moreover, colors allow us to discern between various emotions, which are information concepts. Here is the connection to Kabbalah and the Kabbalah of Information.
According to Kabbalah, the structure of Creation is represented by the Tree of 10 Sefirot. Allegorically, a Sefirah is a vessel filled with Light. Kabbalah of Information considers Sefirot as information concepts, such as the concept of Judgment, the concept of Wisdom etc. These 10 concepts and a vast number of their combinations are the building blocks of the chain of events that constitute Divine Providence and the actions of Man.
That is why Kabbalists associated the Sefirot with colors. There are many interpretations, but according to the Zohar, the Tree of Sefirot is associated with four colors – white, black, red, green, and their hues.
White is associated with the concept of Absolute Mercy, beyond Good and Evil.
Black is associated with concealment and darkness.
Red is associated with Judgment, Might, and Fire.
Green is associated with Loving-Kindness and Water.
But Kabbalists have never associated colors with Time.
Nobody knows what Time is, but we definitely use the notion of Time in the descriptions of the successions of events, as in earlier and later, and vice versa, we associate certain chains of events with a certain period of Time.
Since the events are governed by G-d through the concepts, we can attach the notion of color to Time. The Time of Judgment is red, and the time of war is black, etc. This is what my composition is about.
But the most important idea of Kabbalah is the two-way street of communication between G-d and Man. G-d influences Man, and Man influences G-d. That gives us the possibility to ‘paint the Time’ the color we want.
That is why I sing, “ Paint the Time the color of Love – the brush is in your hand…”
Eduard Shyfrin PhD is the author of the bestselling book From Infinity to Man – Basic Ideas of Kabbalah within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics, which became an Amazon bestseller. He is currently writing his next book, Relativity of Death – A Systemic Theory of the Kabbalah of Information.
In 2023, he released his debut album, Upside Down Blues. He is now releasing his second album, In the Shadow of Time – seven rock-blues compositions exploring different aspects of the interaction between man and time. In parallel, he is completing the recording of a jazz album entitled Mystical You.
If you would like to explore more, please visit: https://www.shyfrinalliance.com
This article was written in cooperation with Eduard Shyfrin.