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torahgalus · 4 years ago

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Yitro

a mountain overturned sheets spread smooth rippling luxurious on a sturdy frame a mountain overturned and all in fire, all in ashes, a revelation or a grave-- we are trembling in terror/awe.

the only thing you cannot create is our terror/awe;

you created the world to finally see your reflection and when you find the waters still & opaque you think, maybe I will un-create, maybe then I can excuse this longing, this loneness.

#poem #poetry #jumblr #torah #parsha #Parshat haShavuah #Poem HaShavuah #Yitro #so many stunning and mind-boggling midrashim about what happens at Sinai #the resolution of how there could be both an ascension and descension this image of god spreading the heavens above the earth like laying a #sheet on a bed #the image of tachtit meaning Hashem held the mountain above our heads #said we could accept the Torah or this would be our grave #the idea that They threatened to return the whole world to tohu v'vohu if we would not take Their torah #thinking about a dvar on why God needs acknowledgement #needs to be known #the puzzling theological nature of it #and this notion that God can only fully grasp Godself through us #that They can only fully perceive Themself in the act of being perceived #I relate to this!!#and it fits within the declaration that the only thing outside of God's hands is yirat shemayim

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