Where did it go. It was here a minute ago. Take a tongue, any tongue, through strange territories. What does it do? It changes, it adapts to fit foreign forms. To fit what? Is not our tongue-twising a sign of assimilation with host culture, of adaptation, of attempting to avoid seeming strange? Ba'alei teshuvah called back to the land of their "ancestory" and using a tone plucked by tongues contorted to live a life in "Galus". Bringing the exile to the ingathering. Can this be done?
How does the name want to be called? From beyond the subliminal, walking the line between open and closed, between vowel and consonant, between being and becoming.
Between starts and stops these three letters, signs, symbols: Yud Hey Wow Hey.
WOW they call. Wow. The sound of wonder… the sound of HOD
In the land, Jew is not Jew but YeHUDi. YeHUDi is rooted in HOD. HOD the Shoresh-Nefesh (soul root) of the Yehudi: rooted in gratitude, appreciation, acknowledgement and wonder. That's the soul root of a Yehudi. Wow. Name five things you are grateful for right now…WOW
The letter, sound, sign is WOW: it means hook. The mouth shaped "Wh". We hook ourselves to the Source of Blessings with the WOW. When we open our mouths in this shape, we shape our mouths as the One who breathes life through all creatures at every moment at all times.
"Wow-shaping" our mouths is breathing down, bringing down, drawing in spirit, breathing with the spirit. Our self boundary is both permitted and permeability.
VAV, vvvvvvvvvv closes openings, teeth and lower lip forming a seal saying, you can't come in and I can't get out. My breath.
While WOW-shaping our mouths is breathing in, bringing down, drawing in spirit, breathing Being and being Breathing, being at-one with the ONE. Our self-boundary is both permitted and permeability as our soul is reminded to remember the Name.
Nafka Mina: .An invitation: consider pronouncing 6th ot (letter) of the Aleph-Bet with the sound "w" in tefillah for a bit. This is the ancient sound that has accompanied this letter and been persevered by communities of the east such as Iraqi and Yemenite Jewry from ancient times. You may be surprised by the power of pronouncing the language of the Ivrim, the boundary crossers, in this way.
Eliyahu Dror
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Eliyahu Dror is a former student of Yeshivat Bat Ayin. He is currently working for the Yeshiva as Administrative Director. |