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THE POETRY OF THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR   

[**in honor of the sefirat ha-omer week of Netzach]  

   Dear fellow spiritual warriors…the lines are drawn….the enemy sits in camouflaged midnight alleys…in the rock bottom valleys … ….despair—it seems--- shows it's ugly face everywhere …..but you my faithful fellow warriors must be strong… you must sing your stubborn victory song all day and all night long…because basically you  have no other choice …..so listen to that deep inner voice--- …and never stop listening…the whole World is waiting for you to defy all the illusions…all the confusions…and raise your victory flag on high…and every battle you win can make the difference between death and life--- for yourself and for so many others…..some poetry to smooth the way through a bit   

AND HERE'S TO YOU  

           *****and here's to you  

You precious few   

who dare  

 to stare down  

anyone who poses  

impossible conditions  

and closes  

the irreversible partitions  

because  

you chosen few   

who take a stand  

thoroughly understand  

that the harder they come  

the harder  they will fall  

all those who dare to put up a wall  

            ****and the deeper that  

you awaken your desire  

the more certain it is  

that no one or nothing  

can put out your fire  

       ****and the creative spark  

 that's lit in the dark  

elicits the deepest creative voice  

that is born in a sacred space  

called ' no choice'  

 

 THE CODE OF THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR IN A BROKEN GENERATION  

[**from the teachings of R. Tzvi Meir Silverberg shlit'a]  

*****embrace your efforts even when things didn't , don't and won't go so smooth  

*****embrace the importance of every battle  

*****embrace your role as a spiritual warrior  

*****embrace tribulations as being opportunities for growth  

*****embrace the spiritual weapons at your disposal --such as prayer and trust and knowing that G-d is all there is and your inner voice guide  

*****embrace the love of the fight  

*****embrace going into the inner trenches of your life and your spirit to redeem the hidden sparks  

*****embrace the knowing that the descent cause the ascent  

*****embrace the knowing that the battles fought here stave off the need for them to be fought after this lifetime  

*****embrace every baby step you can take  

*****embrace the knowing that what you face right here and right now is the best possible thing for you  

*****embrace any bit of clarity you can achieve  

*****embrace the knowing that The One Above is helping you every step of the way  

  

OPENERS OF CLOSED DOORS   

lovers of the overcoming….   

defiant ones ---who refuse to take no for an answer…..   

you are the great hope of all those who get locked out and refused---   

who get spit out and abused---   

who get locked in behind closed doors---   

and never are really told what for….   

the mystery of life's personalized trials and tribulations   

beckons you to use your imagination and break through ------   

so find the key and unlock locked doors   

and set yourselves and everybody else--- free---   

you are the reason that the world was created for ….   

you are the World's destiny--------   

you are the very thing that the whole world is waiting for------   

you know very well that when one door opens ---   

ten more open in it's place…   

send a message to the whole human race ----   

that the time has arrived ----   

humanity will survive and thrive   

and a new time will shine ---   

a time that will reveal the mystery of Creation------   

namely --the realization ------   

that all that was closed   

was only closed ---   

so that some brave souls   

would open those closed doors---   

for evermore   

   

HOLY VOICE WARRIORS  

*'The voice is the voice of Jacob
The hands are the hands of Esau'  

*our legacy
if you open your heart
to really see
is to speak
from the essence of our totality  

*and when you do
then the hand of any man
that threatens you
will be subdued
will melt away
in the morning dew
will let you go on doing
what only you can do  

*to speak your deepest truths
and pray your deepest prayers
until all the slayers
of the righteous
and the holy ones
will burn up in the unsheathed sun
and their wicked deeds
will be done  

*and all the holy voices
of history
will flourish eternally
just as it was
always meant to be  

  

 THE GREATER THE HIDDENNESS  

** the greater the obstacle
the greater the desire
to make it work  

**the greater the hurdle
the greater is the passion
to get it done  

** the greater the obstruction
the greater is the vision
to realize the goal  

** the greater the darkness
the greater is the light
that hides on the other side 
that will shine away 
all the darkness  

**the greater the hiddenness
the greater the revelation
that waits to shatter 
the illusion
that there is anything else 
but His Divine Majesty  

** the greater the complication
the greater is the simplicity
that will be discovered
when we learn to uncover
the veil  

POETRY OF TRANSCENDENCE   

[**in honor of the  sefirat ha-omer week of Netzach]   

   

      Dear children of the transcendental…..experiencers of the transformational…..travelers of the transpositional …..story-tellers of the transcriptional …..and The Lord ----upon seeing that the Patriarch submitted himself to the Brit –to the ultimate Covenant-----blessed his precious one saying, " Walk before me and be whole—be Tamim"-----walk through the gates of infinity---that you can now see with complete clarity…..no need to lose consciousness—you are now whole….no need to struggle anymore…..the Angels of light will lead you to the shores of transcendent sight----enabling you to leap into a whole new way…..enabling you to sing the song of life ---like it's never been sung before----and there's so much more to be bequeathed to your precious progeny------but above all---let them know that the Divine Blessings of allness and wholeness is actually the most precious gift that you leave to them---then they can pursue this blessing—all the days of their lives ----with the knowledge that every step and every breath and every word is unique and rare beyond compare---and when you share this priceless knowing—then your progeny—will be constantly growing----never satisfied that they know enough---and such a blessing---is the key to living a life of eternity   

   

LEAP INTO A WHOLE NEW WAY   

*** I think that if we could Leap outside of ourselves
***if we could Leap outside of all of the Confinements
***if we could Leap into the land Of soul thoughts
and soul words
Into the land
That we have never
Ever been before
Yet we know this place
Like we know our own bodies
A place that is totally new
A place that has no rules
Or pre-conceptions
Just a Knowing   

*** Then we could leap
into A whole new way
A whole new way of Feeling
and thinking and speaking
And what we’d think, we’d be
And what we’d feel, we’d be
And what we’d think, we’d speak   

*** And Hashem would take us
To the place of the heart
And the place of the Soul
And the place that we know   

***Bring me there
Bring me back
Bring me home
dear master of the Universe
hear my deepest yearnings
And take me there
I’ll follow your lead
And my mouth will speak your praises Forever   

    

SING YOUR SONG ABOUT LIFE   

    

*sing your song about life   

raise up your voice   

and let your heart speak   

of all of the ups and downs   

and smiles and frowns   

and a thousand nuances   

that only you notice   

all around you   

and articulate   

the truths and lies   

the laughter and sighs   

that will be expressed   

in your masterpiece   

song about life   

    

*sing your song about humanity   

raise up your voice   

and let your heart speak freely   

of all of the paupers and Kings   

and wars and peace   

and a thousand nuances   

that only you can see   

all around you   

and articulate   

the hopes and frustrations   

the deceptions and frustrations   

the beauty and insanity   

that will be expressed   

in your masterpiece   

song about humanity   

    

sing your song about Creation   

raise up your voice   

and let your heart speak with elation   

of all of the wonders and miracles   

that the Holy One has planted   

into the fabric of reality   

and everything that you   

hear and see   

let them come alive freely   

with a thousand nuances   

of divine synchronicity   

that only you can notice   

because you are   

the one to give voice   

and you therefore   

have no choice   

but to articulate   

and celebrate   

the awesomeness   

of it all   

and all that you will see   

and all that you saw   

that will be expressed   

in your masterpiece   

song about Creation   

    

    

EVERY DROP OF LIFE IS PRECIOUS   

    

*I have an inner drive to not lose anything,
not losing a drop. 
It’s all about knowing 
that everything is meaningful. 
Every piece of information that I learn, 
every person I encounter, 
every challenge I encounter, 
every thought that 
comes into my awareness is valuable,
it’s heaing us,
it's completing us,   

*then life becomes incredibly meaningful
, and everything becomes valuable.and important.   

*If this information and these people
and these thoughts
are coming to me, 
I see them as “G-d sent.
” I see them as sparks,
I see them 
as the Kabbalah sees them,
basically as lost parts
of my soul,
things that are lacking in my life. 
That’s the source of what’s going on here.   

*This is a whole new way
to live our lives, 
and if we really pay attention,
to everything that G-d sends our way
as being invaluable,
everything. 
Every minute,
every thought, 
every feeling, 
every person we meet, 
every idea,
every experience, 
every challenge, 
every accomplishment that we accomplish.
knowing that These are “lackings”
or lost parts of our soul,   

then   

* to the extent that we are
real with that, 
with the fact that they are coming 
from Hashem,
that Hashem is 
in a customized, personalized way
sending these to us. 
When we’re real with the fact
that these are things 
that are happening to us 
in order to help us along,
to heal us,
to complete us,
then life becomes
incredibly meaningful,
and everything becomes 
supremely precious   

  

TRANSFORMATION  

 

alone  

she knew the feeling well  

  

misunderstood  

no one had ever suffered the way she did  

  

love lost  

it seemed like every time she let go-she lost her soul  

 

broken  

despite all her efforts , she couldn't put the pieces back together  

 

overwhelmed  

how in the world could anyone make it through  

  

confused  

twisted and conflicted and tangled up in blue  

  

sobbing  

begging for anyone with a knowing heart to listen  

exhausted  

shadows lulling her into a deep sleep  

  

dreaming  

of a simpler and happier time  

  

awakened  

by a distant spark of hope  

  

stood up  

and saw the dawn's early light  

  

reached out  

for the end of her endless night  

  

embraced  

by a warm and compassionate one  

  

courage  

dominated her waking hours  

  

starting over  

allowing herself a second chance  

 

receptive  

allowing life's flow to carry her where it wants  

  

HEBREWS  

*the nation was conceived  

in a place of clarity  

separated from all the rest  

the world on one side  

and this people  

on the other  

   

*How can anyone  

withstand  

the vulnerability  

of having no one  

who understands?  

*a nation that dwells alone  

will be shown  

the inner sanctum  

will be intimate  

with the beings  

who dwell  

above the stars  

   

*a lamb  

among a pack of wolves  

a Land  

that allows  

no one else's seeds  

to flower  

*endless exile  

until that day  

when we  

all come home  

showing the World  

who we are  

   

*a vision  

of light and love  

guided by the One Above  

will one day be seen  

by all who have eyes  

if they allow themselves to see  

*and only the few  

and far between  

will stand up  

on that great and awesome day  

and proudly declare  

to all who are gathered there  

I am a Hebrew  

I have always lived  

on the other side and now I have come  

to claim what is  rightfully mine 

A FEW POEMS ABOUT THE ABUNDANCE OF TIMELESSNESS  

[**in honor of the sefirat ha-omer week of Netzach] 

  

Dear timelessness seekers….surely you have experienced –at least in passing----that the passage of time—is not what it seems…it's not just a fleeting dream….that there is an endlessness that hides inside of any given second…there is an abundance of past and future that defines the now….there is a netzach / foreverness that extends an experience that you thought that you missed [but it actually will continue to reverberate with ever increasing bliss] …..some poetry perhaps will help us grasp this  

  

NEVER STOP  

the words and feelings
go on forever 
they shine
until the end of time
they reverberate 
with ever-deepening meaning
and even the crescendos 
crescendo endlessly 
and when you truly know this 
you cannot remain listless 
because all is pregnant 
with meaning 
you can no longer
ignore random feelings 
because those feelings 
will never stop
to manifest 
in ever deepening profundity
laser beamed reality
magnifying eternally  

  

A BRAND NEW DAY  

  

   a new day   

you may say   

same old day   

that you've seen over and over again  

but look again my friend   

this new day will never come again  

nor has it ever been   

and the more that you know  

this simple truth  

the more you will see   

that you are the chosen one  

no one else  

can elevate or motivate or instigate  

this brand new day   

or give birth to a brand new way   

like you  

can you see now   

the power of a brand new day?  

   and when you allow  

for the possibility   

that there is no end to this reality  

and all that you   

want and think and feel and say and do   

will be reflected back to you  

till the end of time   

then you must embrace  

all that comes your way   

with all your love   

with all your life   

infinitely   

and this new wondrous voice  

that you will learn to articulate   

you will have to disseminate   

to all those holy souls   

who will be driven to know   

what you know   

because once they know  

that the flow never stops flowing   

and all that we do is constantly growing  

then there will be revealed   

a new kind of knowing  

and nothing else   

will replace  

this holy space   

limitlessly  

  

FOREVER  

****all that I do 
all that I say
everyone I meet
all that I experience
all that I love
below and above
extends in sweet profundity
into the Forever  

****the love I feel today
relives and resonates
and reverberates and reiterates 
in deeper and deeper frequencies
forever  

****I see your face there too
with a knowing smile
and I smile back 
forever  

****I can hear them
call out my name
and help me gain
a knowing
I never dreamed of
before I arrived
in the Forever  

  

BRIDGING US TO ETERNITY  

*** and when we begin
to see a wholer way
when we start
to piece together
the night with the day  

*** when we see how
the past births the present
and the present gives rise
to the future  

***then we will begin to know
that all
that we come across
that every thing
that we go through
is only a small part
of a story 
designed for me and you  

***and there's really
not that much to do 
but to embrace 
and believe 
with a knowing
that this ever growing
and unfolding 
wonder-filled reality
full of grace
and mystery 
is bridging us
to eternity  

 

 

THE POETRY OF INFINITY  

[**in honor of the sefirat ha-omer week of Netzach] 

 

Dear seekers of Infinity…passion players of that eternal  melody…. feelers of the deepness….dear seers of the endlessness….dear breathers of ever-deepening consciousness….surely the thirst that you have felt for so long –is what brings you here to this sacred song fest…and the promise of expansiveness enlists your heart to join us here with the full time meditators….surely the sweet fragrant smoke of expanded consciousness seeping out of these oriental dens of the seekers of altered mindfulness states is what sways you to come into this inner circle camp-fire we all sit around …and the sage advice that we all seek is to know the depth of everything…is to touch the inner light of all we see…is to dwell in the sacred spaces inhabited by traces of our endless souls …and everybody knows that a piece of infinity contains all of infinity …….and the waters of infinity will liberate all that is inside of thee….and one point will expand endlessly –when you allow in this ancient intensity….and these poetic soliloquies –regardless of who is listening ---will hopefully help you and me to see a small glimpse of the deepness with which we can see reality 

 

AND THE INFINITY LIBERATED HER 

***she closed her eyes 

to physical sight 

and her thoughts began 

to take flight 

and she could see 

how all that was 

becomes all that will be 

  

***and she leapt 

into a place of infinity 

because there was 

no other place 

that she wanted to be 

and the infinity 

liberated her thoughts 

and her words and actions too 

and it was all that she could do 

from disappearing and reappearing 

as something new 

and all the scatteredness unified 

and the chaos became rectified 

 

BOUND AND BOUNDLESS 

 

      Every person and every matter –great and small----everything that is found in this place that we call Olam [our hidden World]---they all have an appearance of being limited and bound ---what you see is what you get ---is what everyone says 

 

    But we know that this World is a place that hides it's true nature-----and nature itself is hiding Super-nature   ---and the bound is hiding the boundless 

 

    And when we open our mind to see this hidden seeing---then we will truly see that when the Red Sea Splits—then all Seas split----at what can manifest at the core of anything and everything is boundless Infinity –when we truly allow our eyes to see  

 

[***a few poetic pieces of Infinity {inspired by Allen Aftermann's 'Kabbalah and Consciousness}***] 

 

INFINITY LIBERATES THE DAY TO DAY   

 

    The day to day  

And the same old same old 

----when they discover  

Inside of themselves --- 

Their hidden source--- 

Then they uncover  

A reservoir  

Of more 

---forever more 

Infinitely more 

 

 

INFINITY LIBERATES ORDINARY CONSCIOUSNESS 

 

   Experience this moment 

Listen to your heart beat 

Pay attention to your inner voice speak 

Know what you know  

 

  Feel the love that surrounds you 

Feel the colors that astound you 

 

   And then stop to realize that just like the sky  

Is liberated Infinity----so too is your consciousness 

When you allow it to be 

 

 INFINITY LIBERATES  AND IS LIBERATED 

 

     And this is illustrated  

By how Kabbalah is the  

Poetry of Judaism 

 

  And it's where the microcrocosm 

Meets the macrocosm 

And where Judaism meets the I and Thou 

Mastermind consciousness 

 

   And Kabbalah is the map 

Of transcendent experience 

And all of this  

Comes together in all of it's splendidness 

And brings out the true bliss 

Of this consciousness 

 

    

 

THE EXPANSIVENESS OF ONE POINT 

***a single point 
expands to touch 
every parallel point
in the entire universe 

***a single minute 
reveals deep inside itself
all the single minutes
that make up eternity 

*** a single heart filled sharing
penetrates all the hearts
in the world 
that somehow have experienced
what this heart speaker shares 

*** a single ray of hope
lights up all despair everywhere 
and creates a cosmic bouquet 
whose heavenly aroma
sweetens up and inspire infinitely
all the hopeless 
down and outers
to hope for salvation 

***a single person 
can serve as the extension
of the Divine plan 
and go where no man or woman
has ever gone before
in transforming the entire world
into a heavenly kingdom
forever more 

***a single thought
in between the lines
in between the raindrops
holds the key
to turning reality
into eternal bliss 

***a single 'I love you' 
can do 
what no other words
could ever do
and turn all the me-s and you-s
into lovers too 

 

 

THE INFINITE INTERINCLUSION FACTOR 

Any part of infinity is as infinite as the whole of infinity. If you tap into one aspect of infinite G-dliness, you tap into all the rest! 

Since G-d, Torah and Yisrael are all one--the same rule holds true by all of them. The entire Torah can be revealed in any specific word of Torah. 

The totality of a person can be found in any specific body part or character trait...etc...for example, a proper foot massage sends healing to the entire body 

and even more important than this----the rectification of one character trait of one person, can rectify that identical point in many other people , and even in all of mankind, depending on how thorough the rectification was 

.All the realm of space can be tapped into by tapping into one area of space--[King Solomon, with his amazing wisdom, knew exactly which underground veins in the earth of the land of Israel, matched the corresponding terrains and plants all over the globe and was able to thereby grow all the earth's plants in Israel]! 

The same is true of the dimension of time [..ie..tap into the unique power of a certain Holiday, and that same power is activated the entire year]. 

 

INFINITIZING 

[**inspired by the classic Kabbalistic work-Kabbalah and consciousness by Allen Aftermann**] 

 

KNOW------------Know that the Creator is Infinite....... 

Know that the Creator's whole design of the Creation was to hide His infinity from us , until we could discover how to reveal once again that all is infinity..... 

Know that one of the essential points of all Kabbalistic teachings, is to reinfintize the finite---thus; 

a. the goal of the Tzimtzum [ the creation process of contracting Hashem's infinite prescence to allow for a creation to exist] creation process is to ultimately reinfinitize it all 

b. the goal of the evolution process seeking the maximal synchronization between the lights and the vessils that contain them, is to produce a setup of vessels that can contain infinity 

c. the goal of the Mitzvot [according to the Kabbalistic consciousness perspective] is to infinitize [and thus liberate] the ACTIONS of reality that we take/do 

d. the goal of Mystical Consciousness is to infinitize [and thus, liberate ] THOUGHT 

e. the goal of Ratzon [a Kabbalistic state of fusing our WilL with Hashem's Will ] is to infinitize [and thus liberate] our WILL and our calling in life and our capacities to be the right arm extensions of G-d's Tikun Olam process 

f. the goal of the Divine bridge traits referred to as the Sefirot, are to infinitize all processes and all structures , [including those of our own persona] 

g. the goal of the Tikun [rectification] of cosmic brokenness, is to transform reality into a conduit and conductor and environment for infinity 

h. the goal of all upper and lower world interpersonal relationships is to tap into each other's infinite wellsprings and thereby unify with each other, and thereby reproduce infinite shefa[ abundance] for all of the world to be nurtured from 

i. ''the innate desire of the soul, is to reunify with the infinite...this is the root of every wanting; noother object, idea or love can satisfy it's desire. It's not only what the soul wants, but what all of existence wants.'' [Alan Afterman in his work, '[Kabbalah and Consciousness] 

j. Humanity's goal of returning to the Garden of Eden's Paradise state, as well as the Messianic state, is to arrive at a consciousness and a reality, where all that which was lacking, will be complete---and all that which was finite will be infinite