בקי ברצוא בקי בשובRunning and Returning

baki be-ratzo baki be-shovIn Gamatria ↗

Up high, You are there. Down low, You are there too.

Whoever runs from his own honor gains God's honor. Repentance starts in silence: hearing yourself insulted and not answering back. It never ends, because each deeper understanding of God makes the last one look crude, so one must repent even of one's repentance. Whoever walks this path needs two skills, taken from the Zohar's 'one who enters and goes out': skill in running upward and skill in returning. Psalm 139 holds both. 'If I go up to heaven, You are there': never settle at a height. 'If I make my bed in Sheol, here You are': never despair at a depth.

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