for Parshat Noach
i
God creates each thing with words:
He says, Let there be;
He names:
Day, Night, Sky, Land, Seas.
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The Man is alone
so God makes each creature
and places each creature
before the Man
for the Man to name.
This is the way
God guides the Man to his wife,
the woman,
whom the Man names also.
ii
In Babel
the people
all share
one language.
They say:
Let us make a great city
and a great tower;
let us make a name for ourselves.
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God is not pleased
and He sows discord in their language
and He spreads them out
across the earth.
iii
God utters Creation though words
Man comes to Woman with words,
with names.
But the people of Babel
wish to make a name for themselves.
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There are words
that reach out
from the speaker
to a world,
from one
lonely being
to another.
Other words
are the way
we babble
about
ourselves.
Only one of these types
of speaking
does God
want.
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Shabbat shalom,
Abe
Please pray for for Ayelet Yakira bat Chaya Hinda Matel Nechama