“Beautiful Truth”

I am the center and source of Beautiful Truth.
I hold all as beloved and am loved.
The formless loves life through me As aba and ben* As lover and friend;
As raincloud and seed, As memory, dream. I am touched and I am moved. I stand for harmony;
I stand for space.
I stand for unending grace.
I stand to be seated and sit as I stand.
I land.
I am moved.
And I land.
I am here to hear the Future Calling for her lovers, past.
Yearning. Adoring. Embracing the uncertain Loving the Self above all.
I am here to feel the fall. Count on my heart and my kindness.
Count on my song and my drum.
Count on my love for uncountable things:
I began.
You became.
We become.

—Shir Yaakov, 2013/5773

*Aba: father; Ben: son.

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Rabbi David Ingber

Named by Newsweek as one of 2013’s top 50 most influential rabbis in the United States as well as by The Forward as one of the 50 most newsworthy and notable Jews in America,Rabbi David promotes a renewed Jewish mysticism that integrates meditative mindfulness and physical awareness into mainstream, post-modern Judaism. A major 21st Century Jewish thinker and educator, his rich perspective, open heart and mind, and full-bodied approach to Jewish learning has brought him to speak throughout the United States and worldwide throughout Canada, Europe and Israel.

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