Don't Go Yet! I Wore this Dress for a Little Drama

A beach sunset with all of the colors of the rainbow . . .and kind of a rainbow.

I had a meeting with someone recently, one of the folks in my Jewish Life Coaching circle, and was told gently that I'm a little bit different than other rabbis they've met.

I think they were being a little bit careful.

I'm a little bit different than other rabbis I've met, too.
Which is great, because, as the story goes, our only real job in life is to be ourselves.

Hasidic master Rabbi Zusya said when he gets to heaven, God won't ask why he wasn't Abraham or Moses, because he can answer that he wasn't them. Easy. However, he fears God will ask him, "Why weren't you ZUSYA?", and he will have no answer.

So, okay, hear me out and take from this what you will:

"Don't Go Yet" by Camila Cabello is my favorite Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah song.

Why?

Wellllll . . . because when I feel like I can hear God's voice . . . THIS is what God's voice sometimes sounds like in my head. The King in the Field, the Birthing Parent, the Ruler in the Palace, the Still Small Voice in the breeze in my sukkah . . . yeah . . . some part of all of those voices is THIS voice. I can hear it the loudest on Simchat Torah.

So. You know. Do with that what you will.
And maybe put this on on and turn up the volume and for 2 minutes and 45 seconds dance like it could save the world.

P.S.
I MEAN (and yes, I'm listening AGAIN right now) can't you JUST HEAR GOD singing "I wore this dress for a little drama"? My mind bursts with sunrises and canyons and oceans and major rainstorms and pine trees heavy with snow and grasses bubbled in ice and that first GREEN in a midwestern spring. A little drama. Okay, God. Way to be subtle.