Tetzaveh, תְּצַוֶּה "You Shall Command" Exodus 27:20 - 30:10

Tetzaveh

Tetzaveh and Purim 5782

Poetic notes on parashat Tetzaveh and on Purim*

Twelve precious corporate souls

all of them precious gems,

like veins of life mined from the earth,

were vessels of Torah branching like gemstone light

These twelve were laid upon the anointed one’s heart,

like living vines of light grown from the Shechinah,

wrapping with lovingkindness around the right arm,

their light shining across 

to the disciplined sinews of the left arm

all twelve speaking to the compassion of the heart

of the anointed one

These were the twelve corporate souls

of the twelve tribes of Israel

And the Shechinah herself also

was like a twelve starred crown

resting like a Torah camp,

like a tefillin square,

like a *tzitz* upon the anointed one’s head

And he, through obedient knowledge,

taking away the sin of the holy things

Erasing the imprints of self-centred souls,

which even in ignorant innocence are born from sins

The ways of ignorance are the old ways

which must be evaluated,

which must be elevated,

by gemstone fire on the altar,

by compassion burning in the heart

of an anointed one

What is the eternal birthday of Moshe?

This is an inheritance in Aaron,

like the burning heart of Esther’s sacrifice,

like the gemstone flame of Mordecai’s courage,

from evening to morning,

turning Haman inside out and upside down

That is the door into heaven

into the new eternal ways,

the gentle, compassionate ways,

the ways of learning the word of G‑d,

the becoming ways of the Jewish soul

What is a Jewish soul?

The soul in faith becoming,

which, in the Shechinah light, 

can never become impure,

as the wise have learned

The intellect in the deep of the Jewish soul

is elevated only with humility,

like an open altar flame to G‑d 

And why is the Jewish soul

the soul of faith in G‑d?

And why is it the becoming soul?

Because  G‑d gave birth to it from above….

Therefore the garden of Eden Earth,

in the eternity above the old times,

is the garden of Jewish souls

“If you go according to My statutes

and keep My commandments…

the earth will give forth its produce

and the trees of the field its fruit”

Then you will see Eden Earth with joy,

with its seed source the rose of Sharon

Step back and ask yourself,

How did the first muddy soul

become a heavenly soul?

How did the single opportunistic soul,

the soul at first half-created,

which later wandering from the garden,

how did this lost soul

become the married Jewish soul?

See! Behold! A wondrous vision!

A world turned inside out

and upside down!

He cast the truth down to the ground

The enemy thought he did this

The enemy thought he cast the truth to the ground

But no, the truth buried herself in the ground

She became the Mother of All Living

Just as the name of Moshe

was for a little moment concealed,

so the truth was for a little moment concealed

A just offering was made

A testimony was received

Behold! the married soul is the redeemed soul!

The Jewish soul,

is the forgiven and redeemed soul,

through the prayer of

the hidden Tzaddik,

generated through a spark

Look now to the Anointed One

and to the twelve gemstones on his breast!

It is the corporate Moshe soul,

even the Anointed One’s Moshe soul

It is the twelve tribes of Esther’s heart of hope,

the soul embedded in two tablets