Aleph

Before any sound

Aleph
Breath before breath
a pause
before the first letter
of creation

Not silence
but living stillness
from which every song
is born

Aleph
a moment
before creation
when divine light
contracts
to a single spark
hidden in darkness

then rainbows
into radiance

as primal energy
takes form
in a universe
still unfolding

Aleph

leader
champion
first call
to becoming

breathing through
the spaces
between the words of Torah

where ink gives way
to spirit
where each generation
finds its own song
and every soul
its own path

You are Aleph

You are
the breath of life
the courage
to begin again
the space
where compassion
wisdom
and hope
take form

Come.
Breathe with us.
Stand with us

at the threshold
of new beginnings

where every ending
becomes
the first breath
of creation.