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Lawrence Hall Nov 2023
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

                                  At Yevna Something Happened

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists - we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.

                                       -Herman Wouk

At Yevna something happened, something quite real
Though no one seems to know exactly how
Those who entered as priests arose as rabbis
Carrying Talmud out into the world

At Yevna something happened

Ben Zakkai and Gamaliel sit at your table
Your study table, a house of wisdom in Yevna
Where all may come to study Mishnah and Gemara
Where the lamp of peace is lit on Sabbath eve

At Yevna something happened

G-d sees to it that even a few holy books
The wisdom of the sages
The library of the ages
Are Yevna written into your modest home

At Yevna something happened



Note: The quote from Herman Wouk might not be exactly as he wrote in 1959; I was following an elusive and shape-shifting cut-and-paste text through a trackless forest of quotations.
Yevna
Eleete j Muir Mar 2022
The casus belli of the words harmony at the
Feet of Gamaliel's folly. A seraphic
Stratagem obeying certainties affirmation on
The tip-toe of expectation and the wind of
Discretion to tell of death in the ***, as well
As of, the better part of valour; the cold-hearted
Claret flame searing noxiously at the drubbing
Casuistical deleterious benedictory embranglement-
To see as far through a brickwall as anybody, espying
The beshrewed fragrance of spirits on the left, cloying
Incuriously at the beatific vision possessing knowledge
Of experience goring miscreant houses made of
Man and woman with inconsequential hands to the
Right which cut the baby in half upon the
Green silk of kings who know not the time of day
Nor the breath of God.









ELEETE J MUIR
Ken Pepiton Jan 2022
The Bible holds the definition of the word of Jah
Clear, with no obfussy experience, Word,
the slang cool a decade or two ago, word
was a repeat expulsion of agreement,
in a certain holy ritual spirits call, say
Amen, word, and fall
at the feet of a Gamaliel, be taught by the learned
Authorized Version
It is said be
Here, a little and
there, a little
word from god, go.

The Bible fragments -minus lacunae - missing bits
using no breathing commas, so we know bits,
- but not knowing every thing about anything,
- is no reason not to share the map,
- to there, and back.\ Mere Word
we might say it defines the Word of God,
as being
a  little here, there, everywhere,
whispering
still small voice, here,
am I, listen, murmur, spirit, valued only in spirit,
measured only in spirit,
spoken only in spirit to the hearer, who dares
tell the professional confirmer of hell being so real,
to blow off
that 10% off the top, is but a taste,
of the indulgence giving fifty years in service buys,

to a truth leaver, finder, prove me now, did,
did prove that is not true, that tither magic
used on Christian TV, the giving,
ah,
the widow's mites and mine, we are the salt,
in the soup we offer god's truth, to witness,
crackle thorns in fire,
laughing of fools, found at the edge,
wondering
why they bet there is no god, ah, yes,

I recall, because, if there was a god,
there was a heaven where dead babies go.
And, that being so,
there was a hell for theives and liars, entire sets,
sorted there,
concise, those enter not, no thought, with hooks to
******
the rumproast or prime rib before the seething's done,

indeed, sons of eli, the movie about your book is bullshat.
That a fact?
Fact is, as this story itself is pickin' up steam, we gotta climb

up from the swamp reeds and tamarcks ******* salt
from deep roots, to settle as dust,
on distant ice in need of pressure, osmosis us, squeeze,

a reasoned measure, a certain limit passes, time has points

remarked each season by passers by
awe
expressed at thinking, we all thought this each time
one reads as an act of faith, realized, used, a what ifery,

bet, if I write this, another will read and feel precious,
as any smooth stone in dappled winter shade,
glossed, as the learned say, to be noticed,
as not anything, only words, dancing.
While thinking of Jordan Peterson's right eye tear, his poor left brain being pricked at by pharisees who reeeely really know why hell remains, after the forgiveness of those who knew not what they did. Ranted, the ***,
i wrote a song (for you): i hope you don't mind:

but we live in a time
where playing guitars is forbidden
by the Taliban
and we only resort to digesting
ingesting
listening to music rather than
creating it
as homage to the Wind: WND...

i just used a sample app and rhythm
and patience...

GROOVEPAD
by EasyBrain                    said Brian:
artist: Synthferatu
sample pad: Concrete Jungle
song: 26-06-2024 11-37
composer: Matthias Eschlert

drum intro
guitar
vocals - ecstasy of hope:

                    bass
                  no vocals
     more melody: piano

vocals: different: city lights oh ooh oh!

Sur Sur is a beautiful boy
Muhammad

          vinyls! scratching! vocals disappear!
some added bass

vinyl scratching gone
now vocals
more guitar scratching
elevation of volume
then more vinyl scratching return
more tops
added drum:

the concept of the crescendo

vocals minus
added drums and more piano
added more rhythm

release of the build down
with vocals
short short ecstasy of hope

ADDED EXTRA SHRED
while the song slows down
to a fade out
fade out and crescendo so
important
in making music these days

Edie can tell you:
can't burn the track onto these pages:
can at best leave a description

i really don't have to finish
Frank Herbert's book
Dune
do i
i saw the film and i'm
getting old i loved
the movies
but the book is not puritanical me
Lord of the Rings
the Bible

pig ****: sorry

the song finished on the piano rhythm
because then
what is melody to rhythm
if Africa is Rhythm
then Europe is Melody...

AFRICA IS RHYTHM
EUROPE IS MELODY
AFRICA IS RHYTHM
EUROPE IS MELODY
AFRICA IS RHYTHM
EUROPE IS MELODY
AFRICA IS RHYTHM
EUROPE IS MELODY
AFRICA IS RHYTHM
EUROPE IS MELODY
AFRICA IS RHYTHM
EUROPE IS MELODY

                   i wrote a poem and created
a black hole in my day
i messaged Edie directly
and i wrote a poem
and created a black hole at the Zenith
of June the Day of Europe
now the descending art
into nocturnal bindings to beings
like spiders and moths
flickering strobe asthma
spasm anxiety and perplexia:

epilepsy elypse
ROMANS 8:17
epilepsy ellipses
i talked about my genetics
being plagued by a brain drain
my grandfather's father
my mother's grandfather
did a suicide pact
with Niagara Falls:
went missing in America
no one knows where
Jesus didn't have children
and Matthew doesn't have children
but he: he baked me a cake for
my 13th birthday and i had
a pool party VVQ bb
and i wasn't the loser outlast loner
and all the boiling points
of growing up
and i was a freakish control freak
so maybe i could manage a company
and big girl boyfriend strong
who is father who is ring leader
who is the BOSS i was asked: R U
and i was given a MASTERMIND
friendship band
then overnight it became uncool to DAD ***
don... too...

weird how media operates...
i much prefer the Chinese medicine of media
ingestion:
i prefer the rude crude Chinese method
of stipulating the masses
the western media is virus prone
like ****** didn't understand a Trojan
of Israel into reminding the Arabs
where the Jews belong...

sorry: but if it will take a genocide?
a silent battle:
civilians are necessary bulletts
to bring the walls down?!
don't: you: think?

i remember using the internet for the first
time and
reading so many books
and then drifting from the reality
of the algorithm to the reality
of a customized algorithm: the A.I.

and i don't really need to finish Dune
i picked up Walt Whitman
and James Joyce on the way
because i read so much Air in Sand...
so vapid vapid!
i started drinking more and
writing more and becoming newspaper
orientated, more:
and Chinese impressed most
delightful raging media
a delight of the Stereotype rather than
some Androgynous Android Vest 5PATROL
for LGBTPQV+ views on LSD
and big screen televisions... hanging on ceilings:

because the symmetry of nonsense
and "geometry" in constellations
perhaps from stars we borrowed letters
and god didn't understand
or how did man spawn letters
to call YHWH a god in the realm
of letters and god's pedantic self
i question the authority to move
people forward if
Muhammad illiterate
and Jesus not old enough
like Socrates to not bother to write:
i am scared to have to wander
under a banner of Dyslexia
just: plain: daft: arrogance:
which: Jesus was: and is...

                    of the three counter-cultures:
the Pharisees...

John was the authentic Jew
Jesus was the Impostor
John the Baptist was the Jew
Jesus was the Egyptian
or the Assyrian
impostor
and the gravity of following
Isaiah: who was cut in half
at the abdomen
while John's head was
decapitated and brought to
his sweetheart....

i don't want to finish Dune:
one snippet of Joyce's Ulysses and for once
i want to reread a book
and i think i will age and perform
the predictable: impossible:
make music
and reread books:
Joyce:
imitate Grandma
the curse of Eva
the ARCH DEMON and INHUMAN
soften the blow:
adore ******
more than Christ: cosmopolitan Jesus
crutch and crouch and crowd fund
a couch surfer beginning with
Matthew the Tax Collector...
            
ah: perfect harmony: write your own song
and then write...
ah the perfect harmony:
write your own song
play it back on repeat
and then write and then write...
like Mozart in ice like Beethoven in fire
oh then write...
sample: beauty: darling dearest:
Edie:
is the song bad?

Edie! wake... wake and give me a quake
of your mind and heart:
i will actually give up reading through
the end credits of Dune
and reread Ulysses
because i'm actually: intellectually starved
right not and i'm looking
for drowning and Ockham...

                   PHARISEES

Apostle Paul – a student of Gamaliel

but what if Christianity became what
it is now
from an alternative root:
that of:

a:
Sadducee                     (s)

the:
          Essene                        (s)

here: your father son and holy ghost
in the original first three denominations
of christianity
a schism in Judaism

St Paul the propagator
the violent instigator was a Pharisee
not an Essene
not a Sadducee...

                  Aristocracy
Written Torah
   a Sadducee...

              Theocracy
Oral Torah
Populism
              a Pharisee...

        
             IDEOLOGY... IDEOLOGY...

Asceticism
Communality
Daily Ritual Baptism
Mysticism
Predestination

an Essene...

             an Essence to a Gnostic said: "no" G
                                                               ­ No "g"

Jesus we now have is a Pharisee hell!
Jesus Islam could be
is a Sadducee haven: purgatory...
and Jesus elsewhere:
in Polynesia in paganaism
in Chinese State Atheism
in Hindu juggling
the Essene: came across a Gnostic Jesus:
realized it was me
gave a seat to a *** in Athens
realized: closest i'll ever come
to tease you with the nickname:
a Latin Man:
who from Ventura Troy alias Rome
well: what ******* letter YOD 'ese? th'!

BRAIN FRYER:
ON THE READY?
..........................
GO!
I prayed for someone in pain today. God said he is our healer in faith. So prayed I did. I hope Gamaliel finds relief he can barely walk his pain is bad.

— The End —