בחינה יוסף
The Test of Joseph
we are tested with the test of Joseph
for the sake of the coming global dialogue
sitting at the table of God and Adam
first the sword of Joseph
then the scepter of Judah
this is the covenant of Hashem's mercy to Abraham
Hashem's mercy will be our cutting peace
the pruning of the world
its salvation
i will speak to your understanding
about the pattern of Joseph
the recurring pattern of the ages
about בחינה יוסף
about the covenant of God
that turns the world inside out and upside down
i will speak to you and to yours
not to those whose intelligence is artificial
i will speak to your understanding
in poetic phrases
you who have ears to hear
about Avraham, the soul of Yosef
about Avraham who is one
about Yosef whose soul is corporate
and who somewhere said to his brothers
if you would follow me
down into exile in covenant gracefulness
where the fox runs upon the Temple ruins
to the place of confession for the sin of the Adam
to the place of corporate repentance and hope
to see the Temple hovering above her place
you must follow me down freely into the pit
for the sake of the joy that is set before you
from there in the pit you'll see
the seed of Avraham like the stars
because the serpent said, God knows,
dying you will not die,
and through all the resurrected seed of Avraham
enumerable like the stars
God will destroy the serpent's lie
but what was the God of Israel thinking?
to cut off that headship of Adam
and save the body with an anointed other
a head who was only in God's own mind
and so cut the lying tongue in two?
for in the beginning
the collective many did not come before the
corporate one
for you will not follow a multitude to do sin
for Hashem made them one flesh
now in the pattern of redemption
the test of Joseph
בחינה יוסף
the many came first
and threw the one into the pit
understand this well
the seed of the woman belongs to its creator
though Adam is cut off
the God of Israel has created a new thing in the earth
a woman was made to surround a man
the collective many
was made to surround the corporate one
understand this well
for this reason Avraham left his father and mother
and united with Sarah
and Yitzchak listened to the voice of his wife
and Yaakov built his house with grace in exile
but Yosef, after pasturing his flock
in the valley of death
spoke faithfully of the resurrection of All-Israel
whispering to Moshe, and praying to Israel's God,
bring them up together with my bones