The Stayed Hand - Parshat Vayera

Ahava arrives late in Torah.

What is the meaning 

Of families established

Without mention of love,

In numbers beyond

One man,

One woman;

Generations enough

And into cities?

Where is the love

In all of this?

Where is the love as 

God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah;

God rebukes an elderly woman for laughter;

God orders a man

To kill his [only] son;

The son that he loves?

The son placed

On a sacrificial altar?

A murderer’s hand 

Stayed.

Eyes raise up.

A possibility presenting,

Hidden in full sight

Somewhere upon the land

Before its horizon.

Twice daily:

Our declaration;

As well as our mandate:

God is in all things:

All things are of God.

The trees;

The skies;

The waters;

The destruction;

The chastisement;

The murmurings, low,

Instructing us to kill.

Baruch HaShem for paradox.

Baruch HaShem for mysteries revealed.

Baruch HaShem for God needing us.

Ours is a relationship 

Of synergy.

We are here

To help God evolve

Into God’s greatest potential.

And we are here

To learn how to

Always choose love,

To lay down our sword;

To become the embodiment

Of the Moral Code of the Universe.

We are the children,

Of this realm,

Who are meant to go further

Then Our Parent ever could.

We are here

To be the hand

Stayed because 

We choose

Love.

Tiferet Welch       Oct 26, 2026