Time is fluid and measurements transient. We see this with Bilaam who knew the time of kindled anger:
AGADAH: PRAYING FOR THE DEMISE OF THE WICKED
- QUESTION: The Gemara teaches that there is a moment during each day when Hashem’s anger, as it were, is aroused against the world. One who knows this time can cause destruction by saying certain things at that moment. (See Insights to Berachos 7:1.) The Gemara relates that Rebbi Yehoshua ben Levi had a wicked neighbor who was a heretic. Rebbi Yehoshua ben Levi decided to utilize the moment of Hashem’s wrath to speak words of destruction about the heretic. He waited for the proper time to arrive, but before it came he fell asleep. When he woke up later, he said, “I see from here that it is not proper to arrange the death of a person in this manner.” He cited supported for this from the verse, “Gam Anosh la’Tzadik Lo Tov,” which he interpreted as, “Also it is not good for a righteous person to mete out punishment” ((Mishlei 17:26) http://dafyomi.co.il/sanhedrin/insites/sn-dt-105.htm).
A point in time occupying no space beholden to an earthly clock, instead, this resplendent bechor, (Tehillim, 118:24) “זֶה-הַיּוֹם עָשָׂה יְהוָה; נָגִילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה בוֹ,” the Abishter’s yom, the first moment of our day.
Our noted place for modeh ani:
- And he said: let me go, for the day breaks (xxxii, 27). It is written, They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness (Eicha, 3:23).
R. Simeon b. Abba interpreted this: Because You renew us every morning, we know that great is Your faithfulness to redeem us.
R. Alexandri interpreted it: From the fact that You renew us every morning, we know that great is Your faithfulness to resurrect the dead. (Bereish Rabah, 78:1)
This “great faith,” offered to the sleeping beast while the crown of (reishis) chachma is obscured from perception because of sleep, hence “arise like a lion to serve your Creator in the morning” (Shulchan Aruch 1:1).
The space dances in light as the electron cloud and resides in daled amos, the gap in the ה (distinguishing it from “ches”). This narrow place being our cleft in the rock (וְהָיָה (בַּעֲבֹר כְּבֹדִי וְשַׂמְתִּיךָ בְּנִקְרַת הַצּוּר וְשַׂכֹּתִי כַפִּי עָלֶיךָ עַד עָבְרִי, the portion of our influence, erev, the beginning of the day, turbid with mixtures. Here and now, Malchus, our shared daled amos.
As I heard from Rabi v’Mori, shlit’a, “all is blessing pouring out from on High, except our teshuva, this is desired by G-d, and ours to give.”
Where rests Your anger?
Dark sonatas igniting
lava-like pools
drawn in a breath,
enmeshing,
swirled into the mix with cosmic fidelity;
let’s not ruin efforts with dreams.