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Aluph

 
Before the differentiation
 
Of the first letter spoken,
 
The silence of Aleph
 
Held all things.
 
 
Aluph, Champion God,
 
Aluph, Captain God,
 
Elevate me through silence,

 

Guide me to transcend
 
The division of language,
 
Of the blessed, Holy letters
 
 
Wrapped tightly in tattered garments
 
Of filth and mess and cruelty,
 
Obscuring their illumination.
 
 
Help me
 
Disrobe them.
 
Aluph,

 

Hold me within the silence of Kol Tov:
 
Comfort me during these days of fears.
 
 
Although I may not yet know
 
The sod
 
I know the secret is there –
 
 
Waiting –
 
In the stillness of all potential,
 
For me to add
 
 
The letter that is my life
 
To the ultimate 
 
Yet to be revealed.

 
*Aluph is a name of God used by the Mystics and connotes Oneness and can be translated as “Champion” or “Captain”.
 
Aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew Aleph Bet is an illusion to it.

 

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