Tamid Echad
As Reb Zalman (ztzvkl) would sing, (click here): Tamid Echad / Always and Forever One!
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Reb Zalman (olav hashalom) was our very heart.
He made it seem easy to make us a whole
between Jews, across divides, a message of echad.
If we’re so universalist, so why be Jewish?
Every religion is a vital organ — including ours.
Could a body become all liver? Absurd!
Moshiach, Christ, the Mahdi, the Avatar and Maitreya
will all come to an eco-kosher sudenyu. Oy, what a sudenyu!
When we’ve receded to a place where we seem insignificant to God,
it’s a heresy greater than thinking God is small.
You are not an “oops” of God!
In God’s present your lifetime has significance!
Oh! Secularist’s nascent spirituality!
Oh! Popular believer: Become “shiviti Hashem l’negdi tamid”!
So whether:
Religious or Secular,
Hasid or Mitnaged,
Mystic or Atheist,
Panentheist or Pantheist,
(“Kinderlachen, geh gesunderheit!”)
Renewal, Frum, Liberal, Ultra-Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Secular Humanist, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Native, Mammal, Bird, Reptile, Micro-organism, Charm, Rock, Planet, Galaxy, Black hole:
How can we get it together? Together!
Tamid Echad! Always and Forever One!