April 13, 2008

As a young girl, whenever I went out the front door of my house, I heard my mother call to me,

"Remember who you are, Pamela"

and my father would echo,

"Remember Whose you are"

In Sufi tradition, we use a practice called zikr, which means: remembrance

La illaha illa 'llahu!

There is no god, but the One.

and we go on further to connect with That One in Divine Belonging:

Toward the One
the Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty
United with All the Illuminated Souls
Who form the embodiment of the Master,
the Spirit of Guidance.

Who are the illuminated souls? I am learning that illumination comes in various forms, but is essentially One...All who live and breath, All who have lived and breathed, All who will live and breathe...All Belong...

Passover is about belonging...it is about setting a sign at the door of one's own heart as a sign of eternal living...a sign to oneSelf, a sign to the One Self.

I say "Shema" and mean this:

Shema: means to hear, but also to ‘understand’, to ‘guard’, to ‘nail down with nails’, and to then ‘act upon by following understanding with righteousness’. It's very root is Divine Light.

Yisroel: Those who struggle to Remember, in order to Ensure the Divine Essence prevails upon the world.


Eloheinu: The original is written, Aloheinu. The sound, “Ah” represents the feminine aspect the Divine, El represents the Masculine:

Aloheinu: The One Breath of the Universe, Ruach, or Ru

Ehad: Oneness which is produced through activity. “Uniting separate threads’; To be bound together, like
cords in a rope; To Unite, to join together, to be a Unity.


Therefore the most Holy prayer, Shema, which is to spoken by many three times
each day, may be better understood and read as:

“Hear! Understand!
Guard These Words!
And Act Upon Them!

Struggle to Remember!
The Divine Essence of the Universe.

Our Oneness Is! Bound together! For Eternity!


O, Remember!
Divine Being!

The One Breath
Of The Universe!”

Amen, Amin, Ameyn!

Shalom!

ALA!!!

Hakima