The Ten Commandments and the poem: They Saw The Voices

First posted on the Hearing Seven Thunders site on MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009

The seven thunders:

Thunder upon waters, changing darkness to light
Thunder from the Strong Hand, plucking Adam from the serpent's fang
Thunder crackling through the splendor, lifting Isaac from the altar to the chariot
Thunder like a wave leveling the northern forests and kingdoms
Thunder like rolling fire and steam, waves of plasma, balancing justice and kindness on a plume
Thunder like pillars of heat exploding with redemption in the desert
Thunder like the cry of mothers in the wilderness giving birth to worlds

1. The first commandment institutes the redemption of Israel from Egypt forever, changing darkness to light, thundering across the Red Sea.
2. With the thunder of the passion of the Spirit of G-d within him, Moshe cast down the tablets of the Torah, and so began the salvation of Israel from the sin of the golden calf, wherein Israel had repeated the sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden, violating both the first and the second commandments.
3. When Sarah heard that she would in her old age be giving birth to the promised son, she laughed, because her soul knew that he would be born from the dead for the sanctification of the Name of G-d in Israel, for the observance of the third commandment.
   
4. As Israel was eventually cast out of the garden of the testimony of redemption by the Land itself in order that it might keep its Sabbaths, so the very planet longs to keep the Sabbath for which it was created. And the whole earth shall enter G-d's rest. Even now it is praying from the north for the thunder of the voice of the God of Israel to come and bring it salvation from the empires of human arrogance. The earth, the sea, and even the heaven of heavens desire Israel to keep her Sabbath with her God, that they also might come up to Jerusalem and rejoice in her Sabbath with her.
   
5. In the day when the Messiah of Israel sits upon his throne in Jerusalem all the seventy nations shall come and shall say, This is the home of Abraham and Sarah, of Isaac and Rebecca, of Jacob and Rachel and Leah, our fathers and our mothers. They will cry tears of gratitude for the kindness of Abraham and silence their lip at the justice of Isaac and the holy letters shall issue from their tongue in praise to the God of Israel.
6. Only in the camp of Knesset Israel in the wilderness between this world and the world to come is there an end to be found to all killing, all immorality, all stealing, all evil speaking. Only in that place where the twelve tribes walk as one through the dust of the earth and the foot prints they leave behind are the footprints of the Shekinah are children born to life and not to death.
   
7. The tenth commandment is the commandment of repentance for all souls, the commandment not to hunger and thirst for visible riches but to hunger and thirst for righteousness. And to fulfill this commandment of repentance the seventy nations shall lift all the children of Israel up upon their shoulders and the worlds shall sing the song of Moshe and the Messiah with joy that shall create new souls from the earth and from the sea. And they shall call them the children of Jerusalem's womb.