Monday, December 27, 2021

Weekly MMM - Set List for Parsha Vaeira

 


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THE POETRY OF PERSONAL EXODUS 

Dear sacred strugglers of the endless night…..dear former citizens of the lands of luminosity------you know better than to believe what you presently see……..come on now---if you can't breathe---how can you believe that this way of living---is the only option available to you now------look underneath the happenings--------listen to  what they're chanting with their still small voices--------it seems you really have no other choice-----if you truly want to return to the luminosity--------the odyssey of the potential human condition calls out your name------- go now ----somehow you will find your way out of here ----and know that the greater the challenge—the greater will your desire navigate you to the home of the brave and the land of the free-----and trust in the distant shores now appearing on the horizon-------to lead you to the times when lives will be reclaimed and the correct choices will be chosen ------a time  when one door closes---another one opens-----so leave your personal Egypts every day---------follow the free bird who knows the art of breaking away 

  

    THE BIRD ESCAPES 

  

       ***** For 209 years 

Our ancestors 

Our proverbial ancestors 

Our nonverbal ancestors 

 Our slave mentality ancestors 

Our suffering ancestors 

Were put into a strangle-hold 

They could not breathe 

 in the true sense of breathing 

They could not see 

not in the true sense of seeing 

They couldn’t hear Hashem’s voice 

  

       *******And we are them 

and they are us 

 isn't it obvious 

how us and them 

and time and space  melt away 

 in the intensity of these chaotic days 

  

     *****and we are Down here 

 in the shadow world 

Down here in the narrow straits 

Down here in the darkness 

 Down here in Mitzrayim 

Down here in the MEITZARIM 

Down here in the narrow straits 

 Down here in the confusion 

  

        ******And if it wasn’t for Hashem, 

then who is with us 

When this constant barrage 

comes up against us 

we'd be like a bird 

caught in a hunter's trap 

  

       ******But in His endless mercy 

He breaks the lock and the bird escapes 

  

LEAVING EGYPT EVERY DAY 

  

       **The Kur habarzel 

The iron furnace 

The mission impossible 

When you're stuck in that place 

There is really  no where to look for help 

 There is no way to pull yourself out 

  

      **When you are stuck 

in a state of constriction 

When you are stuck 

 in a place of small mindedness 

 You don’t have any extras to draw upon 

You don't have any extra reservoirs to draw upon 

 no extra associated thoughts 

 no extra plans that you can pull out 

 like a magician pulls a rabbit out of the hat 

You don’t have those things 

 because you are stuck in a stranglehold 

 in Mitzrayim in your own personal Egypt 

  

     **No matter what you do 

What you say 

No matter which way you face 

Which way you feel 

 How you move 

How you do what you do 

You can’t break free 

You certainly can’t speak 

  

       ** When you're immobilized 

Impotent-ized 

Paralyzed 

Then the only thing 

That I can say 

Is that you have to leap 

Out of your personal Egypt 

In any way that you can 

Every night 

And every day 

In any way that you can 

  

GO NOW 

*we are a microcosmic people 
everything outside of us 
is inside of us 

*and that whole egyptian experience 
of escaping the being trapped situation
is inside of us 
right now
[with a special intensity] 

*and when a person finds 
that they get to a space
where they can't stand it anymore
they scream out
from such a deep place 
that the world
submits itself to them
and says
....ok, go go..
go now 

*and the doors
[the impossible to open doors]
come flying open 
and the wise ones 
run out immediately 
and the logical , careful, calculating ones 
they stay where they are forever 

*and we all are stuck
in some kind of story
some kind of exile 
and the doors to freedom
refuse to open
so we somehow settle in 
and build our lives
around that impossibility
accepting acquiescing comfortable
in this cocoon 

*but that special day 
that rare occasion 
presents itself 
and we find ourselves
garbed in the meta-physical lvush-garb
of the Israelites of old
faced with that same primal choice 
to stay or to go 

Go Now 

 

THE GREATER THE CHALLENGE THE MORE PRIMAL YOUR DESIRE MUST BE 

  

*the greater the challenge 

the more primal your desire must be 

and 

the more primal your desire is 

the more the challenge turns into bliss 

  

*the greater the darkness 

the more primal your desire must be 

and 

the more primal your desire is 

the more the darkness turns into light 

  

*the greater the separation is 

the more primal your desire must be 

and 

the more primal your desire is 

the more the separation turns into unification 

  

*the greater the concealment is 

the more primal your desire must be 

and 

the more primal your desire is 

the more the concealment turns into revelation 

 

  

THE POETRY OF HEARING G-D TALKING TO YOU   

   

[**The Children of Israel in Egypt arose from something like  a 209 yr. semi comatose slave mentality mind-state ---and they heard Hashem speaking to them and they unleashed  various primal wordless types of screams—that Hashem heard and responded ultimately by freeing and redeeming  them ---what poetically speaks to me very deeply is the experience of hearing Hashem speaking to me…here's some poetry to try to convey this**]  

    

CAN YOU HEAR G-D TALKING TO YOU 

 Dear listener of the Divine. He is speaking to you all the time.  

Can you hear His subtle messages He sends to you through the people in your life?  

Are you listening to Him speaking to you through the beatings of your heart, informing you when to stop and when to start?  

Are you listening to Him taking care of all that you need, despite what the world would lead you to believe?  

Can you hear Him whispering to you that you don’t have to pay attention to the worries that occupy people’s minds, such as whether you are liked or not or whether life will treat you right? 
Can you hear Him listening to your prayer when you’re saying it from the bottom of your heart?  

Can you hear Him joining you in singing a holy word when you sing it as deeply and long as you can?  

Are you listening to Him offering His hand to help lift you up into the Garden of Eden when you show Him that nothing will stand in your way, not even the revolving sword?  

Are you listening to Him echoing your own cries of pain in all that troubles you? 

 Can you hear Him whisper to you that all that you resonate with in life is a part of your soul to be reclaimed and reintegrated?  

Can you hear Him speaking to you through the stars in the sky and the sand on the shore and everything else that exists because He is all that exists? 

 Can you hear Him speaking to you through the Divine wisdom that He shares with you when you try to fathom the depth of His holy word? 

 

IN THESE SACRED DAYS  

        [**we are going through a very unique and difficult time ---a different type of coming out of Egypt—Hashem speaks to us through His challenge to transform these times into something special and unique**]   

   

       ***in these sacred days   

when the Creator desires primordially  

 to bring into being a whole new way of seeing   

  

      ***In these sacred days   

when life itself is on trial  

 whether what was is meant to continue to be  

 or perhaps and entirely new order will come into being   

  

     ***in these sacred days  

 the wise ones  

 the masters of emulation   

reach down deep into their hearts and souls  

 to re-discover where they've been  

 where they're going   

who they are  

 and who they want to be   

  

     ***in these sacred days  

 the solitary ones  

 reach deep inside   

and realize   

there is nothing to hide from  

 the One who sees all   

and so they lay it all   

on the table   

and with every available  

 ounce of strength   

and love they spill their hearts   

out to the One above   

and to anyone else   

who might be listening  

   

THE ILLUSION OF DESPAIR   

[**Hashem sometimes speaks to us in a place of near despair---similar to the situation at the end of the Egyptian exile---our challenge is to never despair**]    

 [**inspired by R. Yaakov Meir Schechter [shlita] who was inspired by Rebbe Nachman zt'l**]   


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