Rabbi David of Lelov once heard a simple man who was praying say the name of God after every verse. The reason he did this was that there are two dots, one above the other, at the close of every verse. The man took each to be the tiny letter “yud” (in Yiddish it is pronounced as “yid” which also means “Jew”) and since the name of God is sometimes abbreviated in the form of two “yuds,” he thought that what he saw at the end of every verse was the name of God.
The tzaddik instructed him: “Wherever you find two Yids (Jews) side-by-side and on a par, there is the name of God. But whenever it looks to you as if only one Yid (Jew) is standing above the other, then they are not Yids (Jews) it is and it is not the name of God.” –Martin Buber, Late Masters
We are here with, and for, one another.
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