o you Bar Yohai you in oil be happy oil joy from your friends o you Bar Yohai holy oiling you with oil you oiled & measured holy you hold up a leaf from Holy Crown held on your head your beauty o you Bar Yohai your good home you homed in the day you ran you roamed Hole of the Rocks you hid in gave you glory halos for your head o you Bar Yohai circle of whose trees surround lore of Adonai study wondrous light o hearthlight glows for you your teachers teach you o you Bar Yohai o you flew you in the applefield you drew flowers odors o secrets of the Torah buds & branches you for whom we speak o you Bar Yohai wore your power in faith's war fire at its gates pulled sword from sheath you drew against your enemies o you Bar Yohai where the stones were marble you were there before the lion you who saw the bear's crown jewel (saw but who saw you?) o you Bar Yohai in holiest of holies green line months made months the seven sabbaths secrets of the fifty linked the links of @3shin@1 your links o you Bar Yohai wisdom's ancient @3yod@1 you saw into his glory 32-fold path o onset of high offerings a cherub enters oiled & shining in your light o you Bar Yohai wondrous light o high above you frightened past all sight & hidden call it nothing call it sleep eyes cannot see Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org |