Twenty-two Letters:
engraved, carved,
permuted, weighed, and exchanged.
How did God weigh and exchange them?
Alef with them all
and all of them with Alef
Bet with them all
and all of them with Bet
and they repeat all in a cycle.
Thus they emerge from 231 Gates.
And so it is that all creation and all that is spoken
emanates from one Name.
-Translation by Rabbi Jill Hammer

"Listen up, y'all," says Shekhinah
who looks today like a teacher
in corduroy dress and sedate boots.
"Let the smartphone rest a bit,
or learn how to hear My voice
coming through its speaker.
Let your love for Me well up like
unexpected tears. Everyone serves
something: give your life to Me.
Let the channel of your heart open:
My abundance will pour through.
But if you prefer profit, if you pretend—

if you're not real with Me
your life will feel hollow
and your heart be embittered.
I won't punish you; I won't need to.
Your hollowness will be punishment enough,
and the world will suffer for it.
So let My words twine 'round your arm,
and shine like a headlamp
between your eyes to light your way.
Teach them to everyone you meet.
Write them at the end of your emails
and on your business cards.
Then you'll remember how to live
with the flow of all that is holy —
you'll have heaven right here on earth.
יהוה אלוהיכם אמת
YHWH eloheichem emet.
Your God is a true God.