Beyond
In honor of

Hannah Szenes

Long ago, in a place too far for the imagination to even contemplate, there was a Thought. Supremely quiet. In this Thought was the perfection, the salvation, the unity, and the glory. I was not able to consider this Thought, but it lived deep within me. And in this Thought was life. The True Life that could never die.

Even while they pilloried me, tied me to the pillar, and tried to kill me, I could not die. Yet, my life was lost you say. But I held onto the Thought I cannot explain, a belief I cannot articulate, and a language speaking in me.

בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ

In the Beginning, I was in the bosom of the Almighty, the Lord God, the Blessed One, the Perfection. Once I knew at that moment that I never left, everything that mattered was realized. There was nothing that could be done to me because I was beyond words, beyond action, beyond hate, and beyond substance. I was in the Presence of Something that is beyond Everything because it created Everything and is Beyond anything we can know because its Essence is unknowable. Once this Thought dominated me, Death no longer held any meaning.

רוּחַ אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה, עָלָי — יַעַן מָשַׁח יְהוָה אֹתִי לְבַשֵּׂר עֲנָוִים, שְׁלָחַנִי לַחֲבֹשׁ לְנִשְׁבְּרֵי-לֵב, לִקְרֹא לִשְׁבוּיִם דְּרוֹר, וְלַאֲסוּרִים פְּקַח-קוֹחַ.

Amen.
['Lucian Lucia']
['Beresheet', 'Hannah Szenes', 'Almighty', 'Glory', 'Israel']