Sh’sh’sh’ma Yisra’el — Listen, You Godwrestlers! Pause from your wrestling and hush’sh’sh To hear — YHWH/ Yahh Hear in the stillness the still silent voice, The silent breathing that intertwines life; YHWH/ Yahh elohenu Breath of life is our God, What unites all the varied forces creating all worlds into one-ness, Each breath unique, And all unified; YHWH / Yahh echad! Yahh is One. Listen, You Godwrestlers! No one people alone owns this Unify-force; YHWH / Yahh is One. . . .
Tags: eco-conscious, Deuteronomy 11:13-21, Numbers 15:37-41, Deuteronomy 6:4, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Pnai Ohr, Philadelphia, paraliturgical shema, והיה אם שמע v'haya im shemo'a, interpretation as prayer
A midrashic translation/ interpretation of the second paragraph of the Sh’ma. . . .
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