About The Author and Artist

Beth "Batyah" Ginzberg is the owner, CEO and founder of "Ginzberg Creative Arts and Writing, Inc." She is a descendant of the Davidic Line of the Mashiach and is an Israelite Hebrew Priestess. Her father was a Levi Hebrew Priest. Ginzberg is an information scientist and an artist and writer. She writes her poetry in honor and memory of her father Emanuel Ginsburg and in honor of and love for her mother Jarie Vavra Granton.


Wednesday, August 21, 2019

WHAT IS ONE?

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The numeral UNO. Espanol as one. Echad as Hebrew one. Is one a significant number, only if it is only one, and there are no others? Everything, yes, is separate, but altogether, we can try to imagine this separateness as all joined together, as if a garment, tunic, skirt, sewn together like crochet with a crochet hook, to be knitted as a knot? No one knot. Why not? We have five knots, not just one knot. One blue thread? Is he alive or dead? A thread so thin we cannot see. A red thread means well-fed. A hive with only one bee? How much honey can we squeeze, not enough? We have  three legs, so we need more knees. To be fed a chicken leg, to kneel, to bend, not to offend.

Does your name like a lion's mane Begin with the letter B? "B" is the first letter of the Torah, starts the word, BEGINNING. So how did we all begin? Noah. We began again, as BEGAN, the letter B. As BEG, we begged God for manna and then we became the preposition AN. As in AN ANimal. Noah had an ark of animals. Are you an ANimal? No, I am a girl and my name is Ann. I am a girl too, but my name is Diane. Diane do you want Ann to Die? As your name implies. Yes, it is a terrible secret, that is well known. Do we change your name to stay alive, Yeah, no jive. Diane to be as My Anne. 

In the case of this named Dying Diane, can she be kept as one, just for fun? Not to have multiplication, or keep a name, unless it is like a bright Hanukkah flame, one thread, singularity, not a beehive, no animosity.

One meaning we are all joined together. No sanctification? Only if sanctification causes life, L' Chaim. Not to end life but to cause life. 

As in exile. ONE is everyONE. One is all. One times One is equal to One. Plus? Equal to two. Are you multiplying? Or adding? Just using a calculator, that's all. Yes, I must admit, mathematics is easy, no sorcery, all I do is press a button. So you are not really a Wizard of Oz after all? 

No, I am afraid not. I'm not an angel, I'm an imperfect human, just a frayed knot.

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