#21 Ki Tissa (Maqam Hijaz)

Maqam Hijaz - named for a region within modern Saudi Arabia, is associated with death and other mournful occasions.

Sometimes I feel so

Separate --

ordinary and separate.

A few drop dead experiences please --

in the midst of ordinariness

a reminder

what we are all about.

This and This.

Radically And --

There is no place empty [Zohar]

We are radically And.

We know this mostly --

HaShem Is Elokeinu, Hashem only.

Mi-zeh u-mi-zeh [Ex. 32:15]

this and this

no that

no that at all.

Leit atar p’anui mi-nei