Ask me not
Why you and I
Must tread this Path

He wills it so
That He may be
What you and I are not

As light [perforce] must shine
Else it is not light,
But everlasting night

So He that is
His Self reveals
To perfect His goodness

That you and I
Attuned to Him
Become perfection

Reflecting perfect light,
Revealing what He is
That He may be

That which He always was
And always will be
Sovereign King

Who rules over all
That is, and yet is not
Save that He wills it so.

Dr. Asher Rubin [my father ע"ה]