Lee Diamond – Not in Heaven
The God of Israel
Is not in heaven.
The laws of Israel
Are not in heaven.
The Torah of Israel
Is not In heaven.
The Holy one abides
In the details.
The laws of Israel
Are made by Israel
And are infused
With the God of Israel.
The Torah is
For the people
By the people
Of the people
The people of Israel
As the human changes
Moment by moment
As life changes
continuously
So too the Torah
Dynamically
Changes for the
People of Israel
To deny change is
To deny the dynamism
Of Torah
Always growing
Always expanding
To meet the way
Of the people of
Israel.
WE, the people of Israel
Must bring the
God of Israel
Into the details of
Our lives today.
Never to live in the past
But to make the present
Our future.
To allow the God of Israel
To enter our lives.
I say no to Orthodox Judaism
I say no to Conservative Judaism
I say no to Reform Judaism
I say no to Reconstructionist
Judaism
I say a resounding
YES to
A DYNAMIC LIVING JUDAISM
For the God of Israel
For the Torah of Israel
And for the People of Israel
