Exodus
Nishmah, Shma: Let us be a listening people
Shma, listen
for how we might be
holy bodies,
a holy people.
The Burning Bush
I remember
how it was to burn
while others
assumed
I was not being
consumed
Beginning the Book of Exodus, Or Why Retell
The Torah I seek is of mystery, a Torah which calls us to upend constricting patterns of mind and heart, retell the delusional, self-serving stories we embed ourselves in, deconstruct, disrupt for the sake of transformation,
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Sinai The Next Day
The morning after
I wonder
was I fully present
did I receive as the earth does,
in gullies and fields filling
my empty thirsty places.
Revelation: the next day
I am still the skin and bones
of old constricting stories
living in the wilderness.
Vayikra: The Serving Women Are Called
We arrive
the women
who serve
Sacred Presence
moved by our hearts
Clouds and Clearing
Which are the clouds
of Holiness and which
the fog of our own
making –
Vayakhel Moshe: Moshe Summons Us And We Try Again
I hear him calling
from my closed tent –
gather assemble
come to the fire.
Let’s try again
to retrieve the trust
shattered with the first tablets
Lev Pharaoh: His Hardened Heart/Mind
Bo come into the captive
mind of Pharaoh, hardened,
stiffened. made resistent:
va’yichazak, va yi’cabad, va yi’kashe