PSALM 18 – For persisting in the service of love. The words of this poem, this very song, as spoken to Yah on day Love was saved from the cupped-hand of misfortune, from the pointed-fingers of judgment, from Shaul. “Compassion,” You said, “Is my power.” “You,” I said, “Are my rock and refuge, sheltering stone, safe shield and guiding light. With poetic praise and sacred song, I acclaim your name, and from ropes of despair I am saved. Faced with a finite and futile life, river

According to Jewish lore, the first light of creation was called into being on the 25th day of the sixth lunar month, Elul, day one of Creation. On the sixth day of that first week, according to Genesis, God formed the first human-being, adAm, the earthling, both male and female. Thus Adam, was brought into being on the first day of the 7th lunar month, Tishrei, (a day that Jews would come to celebrate as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year), the new moon nearest the fall eq