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Bikkurim

three purple figs hanging on a green tree
 
When you settle into the land, plant.
 
Live in right relationship
with fields and orchards,
sun and rain.
 
Wait.
Watch.
Mark fruitlings with reed-strings,
guides for harvest.
 
In the ripeness of the Ingathering,
take of the seven species.
Shoulder your basket, golden or willow-green.
 
Walk into the fullness of Torah.
Weave flute-songs with gladness.
Dance your joy.
 
Come to the sanctuary.
Remember your journey.
Acknowledge your ancestors and the gift of the land.
 
You are the link to the holy past
in the holy present,
wholly connected.
 
Hand supported by consecrated hand,
wave your thanks-giving.
Set your gift basket beside the altar.
 
Hear the blessing of the bat kol..
Share your abundance.
Then build.
 
In the merit of bikkurim,
hear the mountain-voices offer
portals to intimacy or estrangement.
 
Blessing and curse echo from the peaks:
choice is a fruiting bud
embodying the past, encoding the future.

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