The Eternal God is not:
the God of Abraham
the God of Isaac
the God of Sarah
the God of Rebecca
the God of Leah
the God of Rachel
the God of my childhood
the God of my youth
the God of my adulthood
the God of my old age
the God of my dying
the God of my imagining.
The Eternal God is not my creation.
The Eternal God is not:
the God who chooses
the God who commands
the God who punishes
the God who creates
the God who destroys
the God who makes me win
the God who sees that my enemies lose.
The Eternal God is not my creation.
The Eternal God is the God who alone exists and who exists alone.
When I am free from ancestors
free from traditions,
free from truths,
free from words,
free from thoughts,
free from even the need to be free,
there is God, and there I am not.
Blessed is the One at the heart of my emptiness.
(Contemporary Avot V'Imahot by Reb Rami Shapiro)