Listening

The sentences we studied are rungs upon the ladder Jacob saw;

the law itself is nothing but the road;

I have become impatience of what the rabbis said,

and try to listen to what the angels say.

I have left Padua and am in Jerusalem at last, my friend;

for, as our God was never of wood or bone,

our land is not of stones or earth.

‘Luzzato -Padua 1717' Charles Reznikoff