"Shalom, Shalom..."

"Shalom is one of Hashem's names

because He is Shaleim.

Similarly, when I say Shalom to you,

I wish upon you internal and external shleimut.

Hope you're well."

Several years ago I posted two lovely emails I'd received. Soon after I posted, each person asked me to please not post anything they email me, even if it's lovely and anonymous. I've kept my word. Thankfully, my friend cited above never made such a request. That's the email in its entirety up above. I wrote back, but probably won't hear from him for a while. Still, when you come into a landfall of blessing, you can't just expect to come into that kind of thing again so fast.

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This poem reminds me of my name and the one place (Iyov 14:9) it's used with my vowels and as a noun in all of Tanach. Iyov says that a tree is, in a way, superior to a man. When you cut a tree down, you can give it a little water and before long it's good as new, while this is not the case regarding man:

The Term William Carlos Williams
A rumpled sheet Of brown paper About the length And apparent bulk Of a man was Rolling with the Wind slowly over And over in The street as A car drove down Upon it and Crushed it to The ground. Unlike A man it rose Again rolling With the wind over And over to be as It was before.