Personal Geulah

By Bluma Rapoport

Personal Geulah
Painting by Chaim Soutine

I didn’t expect it.

So lonely out there,

Knowing there is more

But afraid to admit it.

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When I finally did

And lost whatever I had to,

So surprising to see

How many here looking out there.

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Year after year with no mention of G-d,

All of life’s physical

With no meaning attached.

It strangled me.

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So I clumsily wobbled over the bridge

Because from there to here

You have to acknowledge.

The Aleph in all that you do.

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But they laugh.

They won’t admit it, but just underneath, they are mocking.

And you perceive it.

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Cause in our world, faith and ignorance are equated.

You feel a need to explain, defend and excuse it.

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But I’m finished with that.

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Now they are the ones who have to defend it,

how the mind is the ultimate

and superrational despised.

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Thank G-d I chose to listen to within,

Because not long after that,

The Time of Your Redemption

shook the worlds.

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And now reason and above reason are perfectly merging.

With every step we take.