"Hope unfulfilled makes the heart grow weary and sick;
but when the desire is realized it is a tree of life!" from the Book of Proverbs
Gold mined from a prison camp
Silver from long years of corrections
The produce of hard labour
Brass shackles beaten into Godly tools
Blood red souls in Babylon
Rebuilt as the house of the prayers of martyrs
Built according to the anointing of David
The grand conductor of prayer
A house of prayer for all peoples
A house of healing and learning for creation's soul
A house with a Holy of Holies so sublime
Where the Spirit most Divine can dwell
To receive gifts of many mitzvot from the heart
A house to transform earth into heaven
To transform a thousand years into a day
And a day into a world of eternal life
An eternal world of kindness
*Being a meditation on a Torah class on parashah Terumah, delivered by Rabbi Baitelman of ChaBaD Richmond, B.C., based on 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.