Editorial notes: The short story below was found in Shai’s Google Drive notes and is clearly incomplete. The Brain Storming section at the end of the narrative alludes to the continuation of the story An apocryphal Braisa, non-canonical and existing only in Arabic: “Rabbi Yona was lost at sea. Can a man’s name be changed in absentia to avert an ill-luck? […]” Thus I have heard, when...
I could never find an audience in my mind, and so I have invented the unborn child’s face to address. Hello, child of Judah and Benjamin and Levi, sons of Israel, son of the one who was laughed at, son of the Nations. I don’t know what your parents taught you. I don’t know what the world is telling you, nor what you think of all these things. If you are anything like I was at your age, then you...
This is an ode to that which it will never allude; or, A shadow of the sun.
You are not this,
Nor this.
You said “that”,
Instead of that.
That which was something,
May have been
Something
Else.
Liberating
To untie a knot
By tangling.
To be
Come
Never
Been;
Is
Always
Sometime.
The strong
Nuclear Force
Gets stronger –
Equal and
Opposite
Re:
Actions.
This stayed at
Rest.
Now so did
That.
B/S: W/u about letter ayin, connecting Yaakov’s ladder, and Absolute truth/law vs absolute beauty; the idea for samech sofit within reish. which implies the waning of the moon and thus explains how the Mishkan can be built from within Malchut, and thus links to the rope of Kadosh which links to Korach’s judgment which links to the red cow but also, in general, the two goats of Yom...
