A Prayer for Shavuot

Matrix of the Holy Blessed One,

As we stand together

To celebrate our Anniversary with

You, Our Beloved,

May we know that the Torah

We receive,

Is the Torah that we are

To bring into

The Healing of this World.

As we tremble

With the shofar

At the base of the mountain

As Awe cracks open our heart,

Revealing its Golden Crown,

We remember Ruth,

“Wherever you go,

I will go”.

We come to know our self,

As we come to know

The Divine within us.

For it is

Only within the dynamic

Of Loving relationship,

That we can move from

Ani to Ayin:

That delicious dissolution

Of the ego

Within the blessed gift

Of the silence.

Tiferet Welch

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"Maybe it was a niggun that taught God how to speak" from my poem, "There is a Portal"

APPLIED JEWISH SPIRITUALITY