Who may dwell in Your בית?
Cleaving to You as a spouse?
האשר, for whom He toiled six days.
Count the crowns of Your name. But where you find His humility there too you find His greatness, and Avraham, Your generous servant, served Your world for Your sake and revealed this banner on the eighth day of the life of יצחק. He became a singularity himself and placed himself, and us, into Your candelabra*. The eighth light of חנוכה, the lost day secured, concealed beyond the horizon of Your Shabbos. His descendant, the most humble of men, yet with the capacity to strike down and kill a centurion, was trained from adolescence to oppress. Nurtured in the heart of night against Your lit bosom as the stars shimmer against the pitch.
השמימ מספרים כבודו
Your faithful servant, rabbenu, whom You drew from the water revealed the light of the room into which the nation crowds, not a one lacking space* משנה ד:ג
Drawing from the water, he gives us water, and the land never lacks satisfaction.
Had we prayed for him when his moment was at hand as he prayed for us during ours, who can speculate but the pure of heart for it states in the Gemara ברכות as was taught to me by Rabbi Moshe Schapiro שליט’א, that one may acquire both worlds at once.