“Klezmer In Tsfas”, by Lesya Bershov

A Meditation:

It all began with an unbounded light

that filled all and left no room for a world to be.

Then that light was withheld

so that the world might be created in the resulting void.

Then the world was created,

with the purpose of returning to that original state of light

—yet to remain a world.

That is something greater than unbounded light:

A dark world that shines, through our hard work.

Wishing you an uplifting Shabbat,

Rabbi Mendy & Mussy

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