Malchut of Hod
by Judith E. Felsen
The heavens are exalted in their brilliance
as their grandeur is of You.
Each star reserves a place of dignity
and majesty to call its own
and yet all bodies are respected
lights within Your great divine display.
Each one of us is as Your star
with role assigned in Hashem’s greater plans.
We take our place in heaven’s script through
Torah, mitzvot , prayer by which the light we do retrieve
Illuminates our constellation.
Your kingdom here on earth is lit by You ...
Yesod of Hod
by Judith E. Felsen
Would that this evening I bring the glory of sunset,
passionate, fleeting, reflective and meaningful
to my encounters and relations.
Would that tonight I allow my connections
to be as effects of a twinkling star,
intimate, anonymous, inspiring, and elevating.
Would that today I greet all experiences with
anticipation of dawn’s sunrise, bringing possibility
and potential to the world.
Would that today I engage with noontime’s strength
offering power and will divinely ...
Hod of Hod
by Judith E. Felsen
Would that I be one with wind as self unseen,
to live on earth with no resistance to Your will.
My seamlessness would then leave only joy
as winds of service flowed through able willing limbs
devoted daily to Your love, each day inspired by divine decree.
As one with Torah, I am not the self to which I cleave,
instead perhaps as wind, I am an unseen element of Elohim.
Instead, perhaps as wind, I pass through moments here,
an element of nature, grateful servant of Your laws,
an elemental ...
