for Parshat Nitzavim-VaYeilech
i
God tells Moses:
there will be times
when the people wil stray from Me.
I, too,
will turn from the people then.
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And God tells Moses:
write all this down
into a book,
a testimony to the people
who have left Me,
who have caused Me to leave.
ii
So that when the people do not turn to God
and God does not turn to the people
this writing,
this book
still speaks between them.
The conversation does not end.
iii
To say:
Our closeness to God can come
can go
but the book stays.
So that perhaps we can always find our way back
through the book
through the conversation in it
through the words
through the expression—
we back to God,
God back to us,
again together.
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Shabbat Shalom,
Abe
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