Only God I Saw

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Interior of Tomb of Baba Kuhi in Shiraz, Iran

Interior of Tomb of Baba Kuhi in Shiraz, Iran

I am leaving for a one-week silent meditation retreat, so instead of a specific d’var on this week’s Torah portion, I’d like to offer a short reflection on the known Hassidic saying in Yiddish, alz is gat (אַלץ איז גאָט), “everything is God.” The commentary is in the form of a Sufi poem by Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, “Only God I Saw”:

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