The Color of Light: A Kavannah for Putting on Your Tallit

For with You is the Fountain of Light

In your light we shall see the light

      -- Psalm 36:10, translation by Robert Alter

God might be like the color of light:

When you look at it without holy separation, everything is bright and blinding.

But when you have the right tool, like a prism,

or a tallit,

You can set yourself apart and enjoy most of the colors:

And the world opens up.

But there are colors our eyes cannot see

And understandings that our minds cannot grasp but we know they are there.

When you have the right tool, like a spectograph,
or Torah,

You can perceive some of the unseen colors or at least posit their existence:

And the mystical opens up.

Perhaps 
When you have observed all the colors your eyes could see

And then learned about all the colors they could not,

Perhaps, after much time and effort,

You may realize

That it is all part of the One,

Each color separate and together, different and the same.

Flowing from the Fountain of Light,

Continuous.

And there you are, wrapped in the prism of Torah,

Opened up.

And you always were.

Amen