Divine Embrace: S’molo | Rabbi Shefa Gold

Smolo tachat l’roshi, vimino t’chabkayni

His left hand beneath my head,
His right arm embracing me (Song of Songs 2:6)

I am resting in this Divine embrace,
oh timeless time and placeless place!

When I can relax, and feel held, and lean into a sense of ultimate Divine support, then I touch the place within me that is beyond this small identity, that includes and yet transcends this particular time and place. I open to the realm of timeless Being where I am nurtured, reconnected to my soul identity, recharged and the sent on the path of self-realization.

For me this is a description of Shabbat consciousness.

It is circular: The more that I feel that Divine support, the more that I can relax; the more that I relax, the more that I can open; the more that I can open, the more that I receive God’s support.

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Divine Embrace

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