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3333 Years
3333 Years
Poetic notes on the parashat Matot
(looking forward toward parashah Masei)*
Forty-two journeys
Over 3333 years
Forty-two lessons learned
Like letters in the name of G-d
From the Exodus to Today
If you hear His Voice
Forty-two journeys
Just to get to Jericho
The Jericho of more love
Than man or woman know
Give neither glance nor ear
To the bully pulpit of sin
It will pull you in
To a gravity well of negativity
Meditate on the lovely spirit
Mirror the lovely spirit in your other
Exodus set the tribes of Israel free
To live a conscientious life
A life of perspective maintenance
(The serpent has no legs)
The Jew is a single entity of hope
Unwise vows can be annulled
The spoils of Midian will be divided
Moshe’s anger has subsided
In East Promised Land
Behold the mission of creation
Heaven and earth were made
And their song was darkness
They were not and then they were
But they felt only tohu and bohu
Chaos, entropy and confusion
And darkness at the navel of their belly
Yet a lovely voice whispered
Like the wind of a wing above still waters
Then God said
Look over Jordan
Cities of refuge here
And cities of refuge there
Compassion is busy being born
It is not busy dying
Come Reuben, Gad
and you half of Manasseh!
Busy love tramples out the wine of joy
3333 years from Exodus
Every soul together
Shall do teshuvah
Repentance shall fill the world with light
Today if you hear His voice
*Being a meditation on a Torah class on Letters by the Lubavitcher Rebbe delivered by Rabbi Baitelman of ChaBaD Richmond, B.C., based together with this on materials on parashiot Matot-Masei for the series, Torah Studies, by Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Neither Rabbi Baitelman nor the JLI have reviewed or approved of the content of this post.
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