A Sacred Prescription (Ki Tisa 5785)

We are critical
of Moses the Leader who smashes
the Tablets
But this isn’t his Great Sin
Well, 
maybe his Temper, since smashing
	is 
something he gets in trouble for later
But not here

Here, you’d think
smashing 
the God-Given Tablets would be more
     	serious
than smashing a river rock
And yet
God is a Gentle Parent this time
to Moses
(not so much to the idolators)
     	Okay Moses take a deep breath
	Let’s try that again

Back up the Mountain
New Tablets
Take Two
	(And call me in the morning)

	We are taught:
The broken tablets are kept 
with the intact
	We are taught:
Sometimes you have to break something
to make it whole again
to make Us 
	whole again

Maybe this is what Moses was doing,
breaking what we weren’t ready for
so that we could           grow 
to be ready for the next
set

If we ever uncovered
	The Ark 
would we find the broken
shards magically re-fused?

Would we lovingly take out 
the pieces and glue 
them together with gold,
Kintsugi-style?
	One ancient tradition healing another

	Or 
would we leave them broken
to remind us that sometimes broken 
is necessary
	That 
only when we have been broken
do we get to rebuild

A sacred task

It’s okay. Take a deep breath. Try again.
Back up the Mountain.
	Take Two.