Yisro

 

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Yisro

The people saw all of the thunder and smoke,

The fire and lightning, too,

“We’re terrified to hear words directly from G-d,

Please let us hear them through you”.

To Moshe He speaks in words loud and clear,

Not in riddles or pictures or dreams,

His words are too much for us regular folks,

Not even Nevi’im, it seems.

So words must be mightier than splitting the sea,

Or the Well, or the Quail, or the Mon,

The myriad plagues that brought Pharaoh down,

The killing of Egypt’s first sons.

The world was created through the speech of HaShem,

Through His letters and words and phrases,

Yet the Voice of creation is beyond us to hear,

As it echoes down through the ages.