The Seven Healing Trees

These are the words.

May a Jew write the book 

of the seven trees of life

in any language at all?

Is truth a scandal?

Secrets of the roots of the earth, 

say the wise,

may be written in passing languages,

but the secrets of the heart and mind of Abraham

are the secrets of the roots of heaven

and may be written 

only in the language of the Holy Blessed One.

Rabbi Gamaliel says:

even secrets of the roots of earth, 

besides in the divine language,

may be written only in Greek,

to honor the one who was weak

but whose conscience was meek

in the days after Noah's flood.

Fluency is a Torah tongue,

as when the world will become young,

and on the banks of the river shall grow,

on this side of the crystal river and on that,

in the Garden of God's Throne,

the Seven Healing Trees,

with twelve different fruits.

They shall purify the lip of the nations.

They shall sooth the stammering tongue.

Their leaves shall be like honey

for the little children

and like milk to the aged.

For the Seven Healing Trees

shall not know the sun,

for they are lit from within

by the seven spirits of God.

And the forms of their leaves

are the forms of the letters

of the language of God.

And the fragrances of their twelve fruits

are the fragrances of twelve gates 

of the Temple of God.

All eternal souls come from their roots.

Prophecy is their only feeling.

Meekly they receive their healing.