Vayikra 1

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Vayikra


Is there really a need for fragrant smoke

Or the aroma of consecrated wine

To rise from the mizbeach?


Is He not here with us, in an unseeable realm

Not far or distant, occupying

Our same wisp of illusory space?


No reason for a re’ach ni’choach to ascend

Because there is no above and below

Only a gossamer curtain of perception.


Yet His nachas ruach swells as we

Tenderly offer those precious gifts

Allotted us in each ephemeral moment.


The aroma is rather for us to imbibe

Anointing each giving heart 

This is the re’ach He savors.


We inhabit His presence, and He ours

Search carefully, with closed eyes

And listen for Him, in the falling of a tear.




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