Everything

Everything is from Hashem

And Hashem does only good

Therefore everything is good

When good things happen we feel happy

And since all that happens is good

We should always be happy

So why isn't it that way?

Why is it so hard to smile today?

Hashem teaches us

Through His Holy Torah

That good is associated with seeing

'Lo Tov Heyoth Ha'adam Levado'

Man by himself has trouble believing

The cause of this defect

His state of incorrect

Comes from levado

Which loosely translates as a formality

His inclination to fabricate reality

When a person is alone

With no one to challenge his views

He makes up things based on his mentality

Ha'or, which is Tov

When reversed spells Ro'eh,

which is seeing

The light

coming from our eyes

we call sight

Is reflected off what we look at

Back at ourselves

This is the image we create

To which we relate

The fullest our view can be

Contains at most

Only half of reality

Can't ever see behind

Limited by our mind

(mo'ach=lo tov)

That which we lack is the view of our back

Hashem wants us to appreciate

To really treat well

All that He bestows

In His Infinite Wisdom He Knows

That to cherish and guard

Will only come if we discover

That we need

Want

Desire

An other

Look at the birds and beasts

What do you see

What is missing from your reality

Ezer Kinegdo

Such a mystery

For or against

Is up to me

The secret lays in the words themselves

which add to the number 30 times 12

together creates a full circle

together creates

A miracle

The greatest gift Hashem has Given

The precious being known as woman

Taken from a little bone

Given to man

Never more to be alone

(5767)

Avraham Iskowitz

Avraham Iskowitz is a former student of Yeshivat Bat Ayin. He and his wife Raizi live in the village of Bat Ayin with their three sons.

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