Ben Yehudi and those who followed him said music was the mystical hoofbeat. In Kiev in the seventeenth century, Rabbi Ben-Yehudi studied Kabbala with his daughter Rochel and Malta, their horse. He knew this was against the rules. Enlightenment was for men not women but he reasoned if he included the horse, they would all think he had lost his mind and in turn that would make it forgivable to teach his daughter. Ben-Yehudi was unlike his contemporaries, he saw himself as well as the rest of humanity, animals and nature as being the same manifestation, that life itself was alive and everything appearing to be separate was actually connected to the same invisible force. He played music with his shofar and when squealing into the uppermost registers Malka would kick her hooves at the air. When the big horse danced this way it made the glasses vibrate and Rochel would have to catch the ones that shook out of their shelves.