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I want to write the Torah <\/span>
\n<\/span>on a mobius strip of parchment<\/span><\/p>\n

so that the very last lines <\/span>
\n<\/span>(never again will there arise,<\/span><\/p>\n

arpeggio of signs and wonders<\/span>
\n<\/span>stout strength and subtle teaching)<\/span><\/p>\n

would lead seamlessly to<\/span>
\n<\/span>the beginning of heavens<\/span><\/p>\n

and earth, the waters<\/span>
\n<\/span>all wild and waste, and God<\/span><\/p>\n

hovering over the face of creation<\/span>
\n<\/span>like a mother bird.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the strong sinew<\/span>
\n<\/span>that stitches our years together:<\/span><\/p>\n

that we never have to bear<\/span>
\n<\/span>the heartbreak of the story ending<\/span><\/p>\n

each year the words are the same<\/span>
\n<\/span>but something in us is different<\/span><\/p>\n

on a mobius strip of parchment<\/span>
\n<\/span>I want to write the Torah<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One of my favorite moments in all the year comes when we read the solemn last lines of the Torah — these last words from this chapter — and immediately read the opening lines of the Torah. Sometimes we do it with two scrolls. Sometimes we unroll a single scroll all the way from end to end, holding it in gloved fingers carefully in a giant circle around the room so we can see it in all of its complex beauty. We read the ending, and then we read the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the original never-ending story. Just as the story of human growth and potential never ends, only spirals onward, so our reading of the Torah never ends but we begin again. For me as a lover of <\/span>story<\/span><\/i>, this says something important about who we are and how we understand ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year offers us a chance to begin again. Every year that new beginning is informed by who we are and where we’ve been. One door closes and another one opens. The last words lead to the first words which will eventually, a year from now, lead us to the last words again. And then, again, the first words. 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