Sefer Yetzirah - Throat, Lips, Palate, Tongue, Teeth - Der Nister Meditation Circle
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ShareSefer Yetzirah Meditation Source Sheet Chapter 2:2
You are All and I am a particle.
Who should have mercy on a particle if not the All?
Who should have mercy on a particle if not the All?
You are the Listener and I am the reader.
Who should have mercy on the reader if not the Listener?
Who should have mercy on the reader if not the Listener?
You are the Beginning and I am what follows.
Who should have mercy on what follows if not the Beginning?
Who should have mercy on what follows if not the Beginning?
You are the End and I am what follows.
Who should have mercy on what follows if not the End?
Who should have mercy on what follows if not the End?
Stanley Moss, Excerpts from “You and I” from A History of Color: New and Collected Poems. (after an anonymous 13th-century Hebrew poem)
(ג) עשרים ושתים אותיות
חקוקות בקול
חצובות ברוח
קבועות בפה
בחמשה מקומות
א-ח-ה-ע בגרון
ב–ו–מ–ף בשפתים
ג–י–כ–ק בחיך
ד–ט–ל–נ–ת בשנים.
Twenty-Two Letters
engraved in the voice,
hewn in the breath,
fixed in the mouth
in five places:
Alef-Heh-Chet-ʽAyin,
in the throat
Bet-Vav-Mem-Peh,
in the lips
Gimel-Yod-Kaf-Quf, in the palate
Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Tav,
in the tongue
Zayin-Samekh-Shin-Resh-Tzadi, in the teeth.
*note that in the Hayman version, this is 2:2, not 2:3.
The Guest House
Rumi
Rumi
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
