Bereshit, בְּרֵאשִׁית  "In the Beginning"  Genesis. 1:1-6:8

Beresheit / Regenesis

Poetic notes on the first parashat of the Book of Genesis, Beresheit*

In four rivers of revelation

from one head,

God created the beginning and end of the heavens

and the beginning and the end of the earth

And sadly the heaven’s joy was dark and unexpressed

And the earth’s hands were clumsy and quiet

and did not clap with praise

Even while the Anointing Spirit of God

searched for a place to touch the Temple face

of the Torah's waves of creation

Then God gracefully got involved,

got personal in assisting Creation

God explained to Creation what to do

God instructed, Let there be light!

Let the heavens have faith

and the confidence to let its joy radiate!

Let the earth have faith

and stretch out its hands and loudly clap, Amen!

Let there be light, let there be music!

In the tent of a thousand years

the children sat round to hear the stories

about the coming Noah

The mother and father of them all,

the Adam and the Eve, had told stories there,

in a tent where only believers listened

Now the stories the children asked to hear

were about the coming end,

about the coming Noah,

and the mystery of the future people to come

For surely there would be some salvation

and the Noah would have a family

For the Adam and Eve had heard the Almighty

when He cursed the serpent

and not the woman's seed

Surely the Noah would see some salvation,

for the curse of God was the sword of heaven

The serpent would yet see its final day    

The children in the tent listened in fear,

knowing that no one would stand

in the day of world judgment,

except the righteous Noah

For they knew that the flesh of all,

believer in God and rebel alike,

had been touched,

and would be touched,

by the great corruption,

all except the flesh

of the coming righteous Noah

The light of the music of God had grown dim,

but the Noah would carry it forward,

to a family and a nation yet to come

The children of the thousand year tent

therefore composed songs and music,

with the dim light of God which remained to them

Combining mourning with joy,

they sang songs of how one day

their spirits would be rescued from the grave,

and their souls would return in the Regenesis

And so it was that the four rivers of revelation,

which had come from one head in the beginning,

returned to one head in the end

And the Torah waters from above its letters

met with the Torah waters from beneath its letters,

and the dry land disappeared

But salvation came to Noah,

and to the souls which were given to him to save

And God put a rainbow in His Torah

and made it a promise to Noah,

that there would be a covenant among his offspring,

that if He turned the world

inside out and upside down again,

it would be with salvation and not destruction

For it is the desire of God

to hear the music of joy and not of mourning,

filled with the light of human peace and victory

Therefore He said to Noah,

When you see the rainbow,

call it Abraham

Call it Abraham and Sarah

and their seed after them

For it is they who will come up

out of the land of corruption,

like an army of God,

obeying His commandment,

conquering all unholiness,

marking the month of God's salvation

as the first month of the year,

taking a lamb,

each family for its own household,

to follow the Torah of God with that lamb

For then the music of God's light and joy

will rise into all the spheres,

and then God will rest in His joy

He will wipe away every tear   

*...being a mediation based on the commentary of Rashi on Genesis 1:1 and other sources.