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Everything

(how presumptuous!
to think less than one six-billionth
of humanity
(I)
would have the capacity
to name something
like a poem)

L~ve

(or)

G~d

That is so concise, Manna.
Being concise, our Eng Lit Prof says, is at the heart of darkness and light.
I'm a little confused by the absence of the "o" in God and Love?

It's a Jewish thing, I reckon. Not supposed to write "God" because G~d is too big and important and incomprehensible to have a word/name that can be written by our feeble human hands. I thought for this poem that Love should be the same way.

So now. Am I Jewish? Not sure how to answer that these days. Gandhi said something like, "I am Muslim, and Hindu and Christian and Jewish." I think I know what he meant. Sometimes I write God, god, G~d, G-d, or G*d. It's only because I speak English that they both happened to be Os.

Thanks for the compliments. I'm interested in how people will interpret this one.

Your title is profound Manna. For G-d and L-ve encompass everything. You know the men and women of physics are working towards (or have worked towards) TOE - the Theory Of Everything. In one broad equation/idea they propose to sum up all things. But that doesn't include 'everything' in the Ayn Sof. The Ayn Sof is an aspect of kabbalistic Judaism. My family life was deteriorating around the time of my Bar Mitzvah. I started studying my Torah portion, but I never completed it. Even with a family that fell out of organised religion, I was always intrigued by God. Much later in life I returned to my boyhood synagogue to complete a short course on the Kabbalah. I learnt of the Ayn Sof. Beyond the grasp of Man's mind, including all known things, and all unknown. It is the infinite and most primary aspect of God. It is everything factorial I believe Love is this, too. It is sacred. Words and poems try hard, but Love is beyond this. It literally knows no bounds. It is what will save this planet. The Love of all men transcends any difficulty.

If God is the cup, then Love is the wine

Boss

If God is the cup, then Love is the wine

Is this your own quote, Adam? If so, it's exquisite and highly quotable.

It seems it could be reversed, as well... though Love flowing like deep red wine is such an appealing visual. I imagine a simple, silver chalice with your quotation. Thanks for sharing it.

TOE - the Theory Of Everything. In one broad equation/idea they propose to sum up all things. But that doesn't include 'everything' in the Ayn Sof. The Ayn Sof is an aspect of kabbalistic Judaism. My family life was deteriorating around the time of my Bar Mitzvah. I started studying my Torah portion, but I never completed it. Even with a family that fell out of organised religion, I was always intrigued by God. Much later in life I returned to my boyhood synagogue to complete a short course on the Kabbalah. I learnt of the Ayn Sof.

I've never heard of either of these. It seems like Manna would have heard of or be familiar with the Theory of Everything, if not the Ayn Sof, as well. Both sound extremely intriguing.


~ Lizzy

lizzytysh wrote:I imagine a simple, silver chalice with your quotation.

Hee hee, I imagined the Indiana Jones Holy Grail.

Wow, Adam, what a wonderful thing for me to read. I think I have to go look up Ayn Sof now. Thanks!

I imagined the Indiana Jones Holy Grail.

I saw the film, but forgot what that it like; so I'll have to go look that up, along with Ayn Sof. Thank heaven for the Internet, eh?


~ Lizzy

Ayn Sof I suspect is good mates with YHWH, Authenyic Unity, and maybe Tao as well.
Perhaps Ayn Sof even knows I Am Who Am ?
The Holy Ghost flew past them on some slip-stream named Love in the mystic of Dreamtime.

Or so they say!

Matj

It's what poetry attempts. Naming the thing. The emotion. The mood. The experience that transforms and transfigures.