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“Listen up, y’all,” says Shekhinah who looks today like a teacher in corduroy dress and sedate boots. | |
“Let the smartphone rest a bit, or learn how to hear My voice coming through its speaker. | |
Let your love for Me well up like unexpected tears. Everyone serves something: give your life to Me. | |
Let the channel of your heart open and My abundance will pour through. But if you prefer profit, if you pretend — | |
if you’re not real with Me your life will feel hollow and your heart be embittered. | |
I won’t punish you; I won’t need to. Your hollowness will be punishment enough, and the world will suffer for it. | |
So let My words twine around your arm, and shine like a headlamp between your eyes to light your way. | |
Teach them to everyone you meet. Write them at the end of your emails and on your business cards. | |
Then you’ll remember how to live with the flow of all that is holy — you’ll have heaven right here on earth.” |
“Listen up, y’all (An interpretive rendering of V’haya im shamoa)” by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat was originally published 1 February 2016 at her website, Velveteen Rabbi. There she provided the following description, “This is a creative rendering of the second paragraph of the shema, Deuteronomy 11:13-21. It was written for the service I’m leading this morning with Rabbi David [Evan Markus] at Rabbis Without Borders. (I offer deep thanks to David both for co-leading davvenen with me, and for reading an early draft of this poem and offering wise suggestions.)”
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