Healing & Integration

When the bombs began to fall on Gaza, a prime minister reached into the Torah and pulled out its single darkest verse. Remember what Amalek did to you. He said it more than once. It ended up quoted at The Hague, in a case about genocide — the oldest command of erasure, aimed at a living people, in the twenty-first century. I am not a Jew. I will not presume to teach anyone their own tradition. But I have read deeply in it — I have sat with the Lurianic sparks and Adam Kadmon

I keep waiting to be ready. Put that first, because it's under everything else. I've been living as if a day is coming when I'll be finished — land bought, water secured, the pantry full, the man complete — and only then does the real life start. Broke as I am, scattered as I am, I've been grading every day against that finish line. And every night I lose, because the finish line isn't there. Nobody gets to be ready. I wrote that once and thought I understood it. I thought it