A Flame Centered Forward For Our Life Journey

Jun 9, 2025, 9:02 PM

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A Flame Centered Forward For Our Life Journey

Torah Portion- Beha’alotecha (Numbers 8:1 – 12:16)

To light the candelabra with a flame,

Centered forward, is to prepare oneself

For life’s journey with awakening trumpet calls,

Ensuring that one’s spark does ignite to alight

The way, not only for oneself but others,

Gathered, as a community, in unity

For a nation’s mission to repair the world

Continually, reaching for one’s destination.

Further and further, forever to strive

Beyond self-centered, deterrent cravings

To a future protected by sacred time and space,

Divinely blessed for a central purpose.

Just as the seven lamps of the menorah

Must burn to shine towards a center for all.

About the Author

Michel M.J. Shore is a retired judge of the Federal Court of Canada and recently made a home in Israel. He is the writer of several published books and poetry collections.