(In the Midrash, the rabbis tell us that two verses from this parashah, set off by reversed letters, comprised a whole book - the fifth book of the Torah)
Tired of using so many words
To describe
To explain
To draw and picture
To create the image
To communicate
The incommunicable
To give over The experience.
Where are the words of
The flame
that goes up on its own;
that do not need more than
One word -
and the gate is opened?
A gesture, a tear,
Just one more-
Let there be oneness.
One day we will return
To a more whole sharing,
To integrated communication
To words that do not tire
To calling out
As the Holy Ark moves
and not before or after.
One day we will return To love.
Rav Raz Hartman
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Rav Raz Hartman, born to Israeli parents, grew up in Southern California. He was attending U.S.C., majoring in Music Peformance, when he met Rav Natan Greenberg. That meeting eventually result in Raz's coming to the Bat Ayin Yeshiva, where he studied for six years and was given Semichah in 2003. He is married to Leah, and they live, with their three children, in Nachla'ot, Jerusalem. Raz serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo, and founder of the v'Ani Tefillah minyan. He has produced several albums of Jewish music. |