Creative Work timewound Eniot R. Wolfson lecus not talk about beginnings that end or endings that begin let us not talk about the passing of time for time heals all wounds but the wound thats time lec us seek not to remember the pain of pleasure or to forget the pleasure of pain lecus seek not to look behind orto look ahead let us embrace this moment the limitless sea dusky and daunting clanking against speckled rock Shofar 39.2 (2021): 2flapping in the wind winding down exernity’s clock let us take hold today of tomorrow's now that shall never be different or the same Creative Work 229 Summer 2021230 Eliot. Wotton solitude of night in solitude of night i fumble to fetch feet unfettered dancing frantically as time pirouettes around pillars of lament deafening the darkness illumining the grief apparently nonexistent fidelity of nonbelief slicing the silence binding the brokenness love lifes its burden coo burdensome to life forlorn and adrift we are alone together secking shelter and one more chance to cower cowardly before the blindness of too much sight in solitude of night yom kippur 2014 Shofar 39.2low mass in christ twittering distances r00 deep to delineate timeloop twisted on tweets of scorn traversing bridges breathlessly batcered grasping comforts methodically misconstrued between space of nospace and nospace of space impulsively misguided by vestments of atonement we procure bur squander in the summer of our autumn even the wailing cannot curtail love's dissolution Creative Work 231232 Eliot. Wotton befindlichkeit from well of fire timelessly time flow at roots disjointedly her breasts bleeding river of love's rage shackling the heart to flowers fading like august storm leaving no imprint on memory of oblivion she came already gone remembering the forgotten pain of painlessness suffering maleficent bliss lifting like lilac mist over cathedral gloom bustling shards of doom and tormented tongues silencly capitulating in absence of touch even ghosts we conjure t00 cumbersome to clutch june 9, 2015 pragueCreative Work 233, convalescing beware of mirrors inverting shadow and light 00 shallow to compute in night revealing day concealing night we walk bewitched exuberant in our slumber as birds croon silently beneath stars luminescent grumbling in gloom of dusk settling on antiquated scars love's balm cannot repair Summer 2021294 Bt Wotson ne‘ilah lower waters weeping from loneliness that must be endured in exile of spite as upper waters raging from tears they cannot spill on open hearts closing gate ending the end that cannot end therein lies the hope but time has cut its feet on rocks of regret too onerous to lift oo flimsy to discardCreative Work 235) CONTRIBUTOR Elliot R. Wolfson, a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California, Santa Barbara, He is the author of many publications including Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994); Language, Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and the Poetic Imagination (2005); Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death (2006); Venturing Beyond—Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism (2006); Open Secret Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009); A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011); Giving beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania (2014); Elliot R. Wolfion: Poetic Thinking (2013); The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism and the Jewish Other (2018); Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiesis (2019); and Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic Reflections on Temporality (2021). Summer