Until

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From Hands She was delivered

with arms She was received.

Bejeweled crown removed,

yet never cast aside.

Gently laid down

in tenderness, disrobed.

The desire to be known

arching toward the desire to know.

Her branches, unfurled,

with parchment legs opened

yadLit. Hand. The pointer used when reading the Torah, usually shaped like a tiny hand at its point., caressing wide.

Giver,

receiver,

conjoined in coaxing

Her mysteries

ever renewed

yet, still to be revealed.

Tree of Life.

Etz haHayim.

In the middle of Her heartwood,

Her heart:

Tiferet.

In the center of Tiferet –

Aleph:

The silence.

Brushing against the core of all that is silent

coursing between sanctified,

healing notes,

breathed in perfect harmonies

on high,

for six days,

one broken letter,

found in The Name.

Hei,

comes whispered in low tones

heard best by a Mother,

near-by,

and all around,

the Immanent:

ShekhinaThe feminine name of God, expounded upon in the rabbinic era and then by the Kabbalists in extensive literature on the feminine attributes of the divine..

Cradled in this World,

the Kingdom, Malkhut,

all organs,

mitzvotLit. Commandment. It is traditionally held that there are 613 mitzvot (plural) in Judaism, both postive commandments (mandating actions) and negative commandments (prohibiting actions). Mitzvah has also become colloquially assumed to mean the idea of a “good deed.",

Rukhama’s blessed fruit.

Revolving,

evolving,

cycles of 7

and 7 times 7,

and 7 times 7 times 7,

all good acts of this co-creation

bound together

in cords of compassion

until all is rendered whole,

all worlds restored,

all time replete:

Until this birthing

in splendid glory,

arrives fulfilled,

alights complete.

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