Batyah Ginzberg has rewritten and reinterpreted the Hebrew Psalms originally written by King David in an effort to achieve an impact on spiritual healing. They have a traditional Jewish orientation. Batyah Ginzberg views HASHEM as gender rich in gender orientation possessing characteristics present universally in both genders and as a non-physical imageless spiritual entity, not a mortal human being or a ghost. The Psalms included are Psalms 78-150.






Sunday, December 14, 2014

Psalm 104

Bless The Name, HASHEM, and YAH, a God with both feminine and masculine characteristics, and no imagery of identification--we are ALL made in God's image, both women and men: You are very great! You shine with light as we are clothed to reflect Your beauty: Stretching out before our eyes like a large white curtain, opening on a stage during God's Debut: The beautiful blue clouds are Your chariot, You command the wind who is Your messengers: the flaming fire is Your attendants: The earth will not faulter because You have established it: Your deep waters stand proudly on mountain tops, and flow freely into Your valleys: When You rebuke, they flee, when You thunder they rush away: You set boundaries so the waters do not flood the lands, and so the mountains do not open like volcanoes everywhere sending firing lava into all our homes; we obey Your territorial fences: Your flowing waters quench the thirst of all beasts: The birds make homes in Your branches and sing to us as our morning alarm clocks: People awake and work and we are fed with Your green growing vegetation: We pick Your purple grapes off our vines that intertwine our hearts with our loved ones and create gladness: Our faces and candles glow from Your olive oil: And we eat Your Challah to keep our hearts pure: You sustain us: Among the cypress trees, we walk in parks and are sated with Your trees of life, there where the birds make their homes: Huge high mountains to make the goats' footing sure, and rocks to protect the homes of the gophers: She made the Rosh Hodesh new moon a feminine entity in Her image, and also the sun to watch the moon do dances around the earth: You create darkness so the beasts will stir: The young lions roar and are fed by Your generous lovingkindness: When You cause the sun to rise, they go to sleep in the protection of their dens: People awake and go to work until sunset and then sleep: Your possessions fill our storage spaces, we own in abundance we are because of Your good works: In Your great oceans and seas we find numbers of treasures so great, they cannot be counted, we travel to Israel in ships upon Your seas: YAH O God feeds us at the proper time: We look to You with hope and You open Your hand to us: Please never hide Your face, we will dutifully follow all of Your Commandments: When You breathe, You give us life: May the glory of The Name of HASHEM glory forever in majesty: You look at us and we tremble: When You touch the mountains they smoke: I will sing sweetly and in gratitude to You as I praise You, YAH, and therefore I will endure: I will continue to be good to You, for You and to others, and those who are not will perish under Your swords, and be no more: Bless YAH, HASHEM, G-d and God! O my soul! HalleluYAH!   

 

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