Terumah, תְּרוּמָה "Donation" Exodus 25:1 -  27:19

An Offering 

Poetic notes on Parashat Terumah*

"Hope unfulfilled makes the heart grow weary an sick;

but when the desire is realized it is a tree of life!"   —from  The Book of Proverbs

Supernatural, holy gold was mined from life lessons learned

in the global Babylon prison camp

It was gold selflessly, humbly mined by God’s captive mine workers

These riches now fill the treasury of God’s house

Twelve precious gemstones were also mined there with the gold

The gemstones shined with divine sparks of light,

stones of light mined right from the souls of Babylon’s prisoners,

prisoners with golden hearts every one,

hearts of solid gold from lessons learned,

the life lessons of the exiles in global Babylon

The prisoners there, in truth, were not Babylon’s prisoners

They were the prisoners of God

The power of the prison guards of Babylon is false and phony power

The pride of Babylon’s prison warden is a fool’s pride, an empty roar

Silver was also extracted there

from long Persian prison nights and years

It is the silver of corrections by Divine design

Every breath of Adam required correction

Greek prison copper was mined there from the earth

In that copper was the truth that had been cast to the ground

God allowed truth to be cast to the ground 

just to allow Adam to breathe

God’s workers mined the Greek copper in global Babylon

in order that truth might be raised up from the earth

In Greek Babylon they did hard time,

and from hard labour lessons,

deeper than human thought,

truth’s lessons were pounded into foundation braces

for a holy nation

The fine white thread of learning 

turned a glorious scarlet red

in a fragrant hour known only to Hashem 

Planks of fragrant cedar

were logged for yeshivas of suffering;

These were logged from holy children doing time 

in all nations of global Babylon

At night they did not sleep 

but burned with an incence of prayers

from beneath the altar of obedience and mercy

The very constellations were sacrificed upon the altar,

so that global Babylon grew feeble with age and rage

Finally, God’s miners came to the core of time begining

and began to mine its ore

An iron ore like plasma fire was turned into prayers of steel,

forged from blood red souls now captive in a New Babylon

Those were the souls with character crafted 

by redemption from the mud in Egypt,

souls rebuilt as a shul,

a shul of martyrs for God’s word,

to serve the mystery of God’s word

in its final captivity in New Babylon

One gemstone mitzvah of a little child

placed in the hand of Mashiach

builds heaven and earth into the shul of God

This is the shul that was built 

according to the design of God’s eternal light

that came down from Hashem in the anointing of David,

the grand conductor of prayer

Concerning this, King Solomon, the son of David, prophesied

For his Temple spoke of blood red souls 

harvested from revived Babylon,

rebuilt as a House of Prayer for all peoples,

themselves forming Hashem’s house,

a house of healing and learning for all creation's soul

Jerusalem is a house with a Holy of Holies so sublime…,

so sublime that the Spirit most Divine longs to dwell there,

to receive gifts of many mitzvot from living golden hearts

She is a Temple with walls of the Torah’s mighty power

Her footings are on the battlefield of victory

In God’s war with Amalek, Jerusalem stands with Moses

At first she felt entitled to her position between the shoulders of cherubs

Then, when Jerusalem was honoured and raised high, 

on account of her repentance and modesty,

Amalek went underground

Now each and every individual soul assembled in Jerusalem 

is like a nation roaring like a lion

“You shall all know Me, from the least of you to the greatest!”

Each holy soul battles the soul of Amalek

Each soul, like a nation, defeats the evil inclination

and soul seeks to establish peace all around,

like David, the king chosen and anointed of God, did;

each soul, like David defeated Amalek, 

so that King Solomon could reign in peace

For there is no king without a kingdom

So long as Hashem grants me another moment,

though I have failed the moment before,

as the new moment is conceived, may I seek 

this time to do only his will

This is the brit of Mashiach

This is his covenant with the house of Israel

This is Adam’s life from the dead,

The commandment was to eat 

of the fruit of the vertant trees of trust

It then became the commandment to eat 

of the wilderness trees of correction and repentance

Then the commandment came to be to eat

of Zion’s trees of incorruptibility and immortality

Hashem’s people are his home

He dines with them in the living room of hisTemple 

with its wall hangings of eternal glory

Jerusalem’s footings are on the battlefield of victory

in the war of redeemed souls with Amalek

She is a house built to give eternal birth

to a new earth and heaven,

Her offspring is a universe of kindness,

a sacrificial offering to Hashem Elohim, the Creator,

through the pains of childbirth,

the firstfruits unto God