Name: Empty Me
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: From a prayer, in the singular, chanted by the cantor during the High Holidays (where are you? right here)

Empty Me

from Dressed For Class by Rabbi James Stone Goodman

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From a prayer, in the singular, chanted by the cantor during the High Holidays (where are you? right here)

lyrics

Empty Me

Interactive song-poem

Here I am planted in front of You
And my conspirators in prayer
To pray for myself and on behalf of my community

Some of the people here I know I love them
Some of the people here I don't know I love them too

Empty me
Of obstacles
What separates me
From everything I love the most

I am a vessel an instrument
A harp on the edge of the bed
A northern wind blowing through me

Play me like a harp a flute an oud

Empty me
Of obstacles that obstruct

Add here your own obstacles and when you do
Take a moment to name them
What separates you from G*d
And everything you love the most

As for me
I will love as purely and as whole as I can
That my prayers my actions my life
Might be rescued from the externals

We will never lose our yearning
We will never settle for less

With all our songs our poems and prayers
Bless us O G*d
One G*d
Unclaimed G*d
Lonely G*d

Empty me