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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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