Type: Poem

“I leave my safe haven / this night of purity and sighs”

“Time for your / soul to take flight, time for your soul / to light a new star.”

“Carefully, I grope in the dark to find my cup. / This cup dwells within.”

“The silent air before it is blown into sound inside the horn of a beast…”

“the door will open, / the Shekhinah and her entourage of angels / will enter our temple in time.”

“How do you steer this thing? / Which end is helm and which is the stern?”

“In Hebrew, shakan, dwelling place, often referred to a royal residence. / The rabbis gave it a feminine ending: Shekhinah. Divine mother.”

A poem about the gift of Torah and the covenant between the poet and God.