With obedience and surrender
In love
To the High Gd
Keter Ain Sof
The unspeakable One
Omen, omen, omen
Selah
Pilgrim-son
who sent you
for Whom did you come
Silence they said
waiting
hoping
place the offering gently down
and then go away
you go away then
a glowing ruby in darkening sunlight
waiting till the reawakening burns down
the sky full of stars, His gaze spinning around you,
and the warmth of your face
in the icy wind
looking towards a morning that has never been
for all the thoughts You give me, bring me close to You Hashem
for all the feelings I feel, bring me close to You Hashem
for the people I love, bring me close to You Hashem
for the souls I would protect, bring me close to You Hashem
for all my desire to come close to You, bring me close to You Hashem
for all the loving desires, bring me close to You Hashem
for the ways I'll never know You, bring me close to You Hashem
for the ways I will never serve You, bring me close to You Hashem
for the depths of me I'll never discover, bring me close to You Hashem
for the thoughts I'll never have, bring me close to You Hashem
because I'll never know You, bring me close to You Hashem
You bless us and we are blessed
turning turning aishes chail mi yimtzeh
for the tikkuniim I haven't made, bring me closer to You Hashem
for the tikkuniim I'll never make, bring me close to You Hashem
for the souls I love, bring me close to you Hashem
in her depths of ocean
each tear like a grain of salt
dissolved swallowed into
the sweetness of her waters
oh I could cry with such joy
would she ever come to me
would she ever kiss my face
my lips
would the moon
ever loose her starry hair
There is a love that is drawn after Him even without knowing where except that He has touched us, He has shown us how to call to Him
There is an unrequited love full of longing, aching in the heart, grapes that have begun to ferment�there is an unfulfillment that brings the lover closer
There is a love that kills and heals that empties and fills that shapes and maims� there is a love that chooses love even where there is pain
There is a love that is older than yet younger than, a love yet to be born whose wisdom is greater than what can be gathered in all these lifetimes
There is a love that welcomes the emptiness of death, the same love that leaps with ripe tears when it's drawn back to the dance
There is a love has been buried in the desert where all thought is baked from the bones �A love that reaches out even as hands numbly fumble in the freezing rain
There is a love that finds something warm in the texture of stone as it works its way up the mountain, a love that is not afraid to know its dread of loneliness
And there is a love that accepts peace, that wants to run to You beyond the sun, but also feels Your presence�There is a love that accepts peace
And there is a love that blesses only in Your name, That swears only by Your name�E-lokim Omen
Beyond the seventh veil of heaven
the spanning
outstretch of His holy aravot plains
There my blue Gd goes riding
"Y-ah! Y-ah!" I call His name
At the sea the sky took up our mothers' song
"O bring me to You
precede me through the waves
open a clearing broad and spacious"
Y-ah, only that we
may know Your name
When the mountain was
vapor around us
when time leapt into the hand of love
and there was no enemy or pain
we could see our blue Gd riding
Y-ah, we sang His name
And though in a dream
we are wrapped too long
we can feel the coming heat of day
you can hear
to the land my blue Gd is riding
"Y-ah!" I have called His name
"O Y-ah" I have called Your name
I praise with the angels who praise You, Hashem
The angels whose feet touching below "Praise You Hashem"
The higher angels who receive and rising above "Praise You Hashem"
The fiery angels consumed in Oneness "Praise You Hashem"
All are devoted to Your love in fire and light
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You bless us and we are blessed
With the lower heh, breathing out, we will Praise You Hashem
With the vav, connecting within and without, Praise You Hashem
With the upper heh, source to which everything returns, we will Praise You Hashem
With the constriction of the yud, mouth throat and breadth of the great shofar, Praise You Hashem
With the crowns that hover above connected by fine hairs of light, Praise You Hashem
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You bless us and we are blessed
Adon-ai sefotai tiftach ufi yagid tefilatecha
E-l Chai oseh brito yesodi
Adon-ai Tzefkot shomer alay l'olam
E-lokim Tzefkot tein li hadar hodecha
Ykvk b'rachmim noten tiferet
E-l, b'yad yemin, ahavah, magdil oti
E-lokim mi pachad mishpachto shomer oti
E-lokim Chaim noten li binah
Y-ah chonantani b'chocmah
Ekyeh Asher Ekyeh maktir oti b'keter
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