You shall love Adonai your God with all your mind, with all your strength, with all your being. Set these words, which I command you this day, upon your heart . —Deut 6:5-6 Even when you hold it in your arms, you have not grasped it. Wrapped and turned in upon itself the scroll says, Not yet. Even when you take them into your eyes, you have not seen them; elegant in their crowns the letters stand aloof. Even when you taste them in your mouth and roll them on your tongue or bite the sharp unyielding strokes they say, Not yet. And when the sounds pour from your throat and reach deep into your lungs for breath, even then the words say, Not quite But when your heart knows its own hunger and your mind is seized and shaken, and in the narrow space between the lines your soul builds its nest, Now, says Torah, now you begin to understand. - Barbara D. Holender
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