From Hands She was delivered
with arms She was received.
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TorahThe Five Books of Moses, and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and study of the Torah is a high mitzvah. The Torah itself a scroll that is hand lettered on parchment, elaborately dressed and decorated, and stored in a decorative ark. It is chanted aloud on Mondays, Thursdays, and Shabbat, according to a yearly cycle. Sometimes "Torah" is used as a colloquial term for Jewish learning and narrative in general..
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Bejeweled crown removed,
yet never cast aside.
Gently laid downÂ
in tenderness, disrobed.
The desire to be knownÂ
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,Â
receiver,Â
conjoined in coaxing
Her mysteriesÂ
ever renewedÂ
yet, still to be revealed.
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Tree of Life.
Etz haHayim.
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In the middle of Her heartwood,
Her heart:
Tiferet.
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In the center of Tiferet –
Aleph:
The silence.
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Brushing against the core of all that is silentÂ
coursing between sanctified,Â
healing notes,
breathed in perfect harmoniesÂ
on high,
for six days,
one broken letter, Â
found in The Name.
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Hei,Â
comes whispered in low tonesÂ
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..Â
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Cradled in this World,Â
the Kingdom, Malkhut,
all organs,Â
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.",Â
Rukhama’s blessed fruit.
Revolving,Â
evolving,Â
cycles of 7
and 7 times 7,
and 7 times 7 times 7,
all good acts of this co-creationÂ
bound togetherÂ
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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