G’vurot

Death comes and overturns our world, wrecking the foundations of our life.  What faith or trust is possible in the face of such insecurity?

            We crave a reliable universe, but the G’vurot offers us a different vision.  This prayer speaks of God’s trustworthiness, within the wildly dynamic reality of our world: wind and rain, sickness and healing, closings and openings, risings and fallings.  Life and death are two of the many transformations within this fluid, never still universe, and God is the molten core within.  Destroyer and Creator, God is meimit um’chayei, the Cause of death and of life.

            In this constantly changing world, nothing is permanent.  Everything that lives will one day fade, and all that has died will eventually return. Nothing lasts forever, not even death.