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Lekh Lekha / Go To Who You Are
Lekh Lekha / Go To Who You Are
Poetic notes on parashat Lekh Lekha*
Poetic notes on parashat Lekh Lekha*
Go Abram
Go to yourself*
Go to yourself at 100 years of age,
when you will be your true self,
when Isaac will be born*
Abram believed in Abraham
Go to who you are in God
Abraham believed in God’s Abraham
Go to who you will be when you are
Abraham on the Eternal Earth,
in the eternal heavens,
when you have forever inherited
the Eternal Holy Land
Abraham went to the land
that God would show him
Abraham went to himself,
to where he was with God
He came to the mountain of God
and saw forever
Come, let us go with Abraham
to ourselves,
to where we are with God
I believe
with a complete faith
in the coming of Messiah
With a complete faith
in the coming of Messiah
I believe
Leave behind the house of idols
where once Adam built you dreams
Leave behind your old self
that only wanted
to pretend and make believe
Come to a land that God will show you
where in the morning all is Messianic
A little one will come
and devour the world that was
in the glory of the redemption of all things
in the unveiling of the world that is forever
a little one will come
This is Benjamin, the son of Jacob,
the son Isaac, the son of Abraham,
Benjamin will devour the old
and reveal the new
simply by being saved in Judah,
by being saved from world famine
for the word of God,
by embracing the neck of his brother Joseph,
in the land that God will show you
In the evening of the morning
HaShem will begin to divide the treasures
at the feet of battle-weary Jerusalem,
in the land that God will share with you
Raise up your eyes to the everlasting hills
These are Leah and Rachel,
the mothers of the land where you are going
Come to the land of faith
and trust in HaShem your God
Eat freely of all the trees of the Garden
The commandment is once again given to you
Melchizedek went out to meet Abraham
returning from the battle
He brought out bread and wine
with fear of the most reverent kind
How should he administer these?
How should he serve the Master?
Now that God had made it clear
all blessings will be vanity
except blessings that begin
in blessing Abraham?
Hear, oh Israel, HaShem your God,
HaShem is one
Melchizedek knew few of his ancestors
would understand,
Fewer yet of his descendants
would understand
For he blessed the servant
before he blessed the Master
Who would understand?
He would lose his priesthood
He would lose his testimony
The reversed order of his words
would pass the priesthood
to Abraham and his offspring
It would be as though
he had no father or mother
He would be like a newborn abandoned,
his only hope to be adopted
in the tent of Abraham
He was a beggar king in Salem
His only wealth was in his blessing himself
in his blessing of Abraham
He had felt all the four winds blowing in joy
upon his hands and face as he blessed Abraham
His spirit felt the four winds dancing
They were thinking of the coming glory of God
They were feeling the love of angel's wings
*Lekh Lekha — being a reflection on the parashah and on a related class given by Rabbi Baitelman on how to understand Abraham's wealth and the question of wealth as understood in Judaism.
*Go to yourself — the interpretation of the Hebrew, לֶךְ־לְךָ֛, as given by Kli Yakar and other sources.
*when Isaac will be born — as found in the commentary of Kitzur Baal HaTurim.
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