The Torah and Prayer

 The Torah and Prayer

Torah and Prayer are two opposite parts

Our job is to learn the difference so we can start

Torah brings Light from Above down below

Prayer raises the lack from the heart’s inner woe

One fills the vessel, the other reveals

The cracks in the soul that the ego conceals

Torah is given, a gift from the King

Prayer is the cry that the broken ones bring

One is the answer, the other the plea

Together they build true equivalency

When I learn Torah but don’t feel the need

It turns into knowledge that starves out the seed

But when prayer awakens from deep in despair

The Torah brings Light and corrects what is there

So back and forth like the breath that we take

Deficiency rising, fulfillment awake

Not one without two, not two without One

This is the path till correction is done

So give me the lack, let my heart truly pray

Then dress it with Torah to show me the way

For in this connection, the two become One

And the work of the Creator in us is begun