How can we achieve?

 

for Parshat Mishpatim

i

Moses tells the people of God’s Laws.

The people say we will do

all that God wants of us.

Moses writes God’s Laws down.

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Then the people say

we will do and we will listen

to God’s Law:

adding the word

listen

to what has already been said.

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And God inscribes the Laws

into tablets of stone

for Moses to take down

to the people at the mountain base.

 

ii

What you do

is a matter of yourself.

You do not need anyone else

to simply do.

It is like writing thoughts on paper:

you formalize what is in your mind,

you achieve little in the world.

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Listening,

you bring what is outside

within you.

Listening to God,

you bring God’s words

God’s voice

within you.

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Listening to God,

you can make what you do on your own

what you do from yourself

an act that is filled up with God:

an act of holiness.

 

iii

And doing and listening

you make your deeds whole,

you make your deeds concrete:

like solid stone.

 

 

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Shabbat Shalom,

Abe

 

Please pray for Neshama Emuna bat Batya