for Parshat VaYeirah
i
God walks in the Garden
and the Man and the Woman are hiding
(for they have eaten the Fruit).
*
God says
Ayekah
Where are you?
Then they answer.
*
Soon after
the man names the woman
Chavah:
from chai,
the word of life—
for Chavah
will be the mother
of all the living.
ii
Sarah, Abraham’s wife, is barren.
God’s angels come to Sarah and Abraham’s house.
The angels ask Abraham: Where
ayeih
is Sarah, your wife?
Abraham says:
Here, in the tent.
*
God says:
I will return to you
at a later time
and Sarah will bear a son.
*
God’s exact words
for this later time
are: as in a time of life.
In a time of life,
Sarah will bear a son:
becoming like Chavah,
mother of all life.
iii
There is a self
that we hold shameful
or that we hold precious
that we hide away.
It is into this hiddenness
that God cries:
Ayekah?,
Where are you?
*
When we answer Him
it is like a baby come out
from inside its mother.
Life begins.
*
And God asks and asks:
Ayekah
Where are you?
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Shabbat shalom,
Abe
Please pray for for Ayelet Yakira bat Chaya Hinda Matel Nechama, and for Neshama Emunah bat Batya
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