Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Questions

What’s with the heart throbbing sensation?

Can it be lost without communication?

How could I stop this imagination?

When you’re here in my quotation?

Manhid

Wala ni sinuman ang makahahadlang

Sa pag-ibig sa’yo aking minamahal

Alam kong

mali

ang aking nadarama

Ngunit tuloy pa rin ang sayo’y paghanga.

Di ko man alam kung paano pigilin

Damdamin ko sayo’y sana’y bagyuhin

Masaklap man ito, kailangang tanggapin

Upang sa iyo’y ako’y mapalapit.

Tuwa ko’y labis kung ika’y makausap

Mas lalo na kung ikaw ay makasama

Nababalisa naman kapag nakikita

Sana’y nadarama ko ay mawala na.

Nagseselos ako ‘pag kasama mo siya

Ngunit kaibigan ko siya, anong magagawa

Ang tanging masasabi’y magpakatanga

O pigilin ang damdamin bago lumala.

Anong gulo na naman aking pinasok

Sadya nga bang kabataa’y mapusok

Kailangang malampasan ang pagsubok

Na inihatid ni kupidong pahamak.

Hay, kaysaklap ng aking kwentong pag-ibig

Sana’y ang lahat ay isang panaginip

Upang hindi na madarama ang sakit

At ako na lamang ay magpapakamanhid.

The Hebrew Letters
Shin: The Eternal Flame

The letter shin appears engraved on both sides of the head- tefilin. On the right side, the shinpossesses three heads, while on the left side it possesses four heads. In Kabbalah we are taught that the three-headed shin is the shin of this world while the four- headed shin is the shin of the World to Come.
The secret of the shin is "the flame [Divine Revelation] bound to the coal [Divine Essence]." A simmering coal actually possesses an invisible flame within it, which emerges and ascends from the surface of the coal when the coal is blown upon. The three levels: coal, inner flame, and outer flame, correspond to the secret of chash-mal-mal, as will be explained in the next letter, the tav.
One of the meanings of the word shin in Hebrew is shinui, "change." The coal symbolizes changeless essence, the secret of the verse: "I am God, I have not changed," meaning that relative to God's Essence absolutely no change has occurred from before Creation to after Creation. The inner flame is the paradoxical latent presence of the power of change within the changeless. The outer flame of the shin is continuously in a state of motion and change.
As in the above-quoted verse, the changeless Essence is the secret of the Name Havayah. The power of change, as latently present within God’s Essence before Creation and thereafter revealed in the infinite intricacy and beauty of an ever-dancing flame, is the secret of the explicit Name of Creation, Elokim, the only Name of God which appears in the plural. The number of the letter shin, 300, unites these two Divine Names as the "flame bound to the coal." Inat'bash, the Name Havayah transforms to the letters mem-tzadik-pei-tzadik, which total 300. The five letters of Elokim (alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem) when written in full, also equal 300.
The three heads of the shin of this world correspond to the three levels of the changeless, potential, and actual change as discussed above. In this world, the changeless is symbolized only by a black, dark coal, not as the revealed light of the flame. Nonetheless the endurance of the flame depends upon the changeless essence of the coal. In the World to Come, the changeless essence will reveal itself within the flame. This revelation of the future is the secret of the fourth head of the shin.
In the flame of a candle one sees three levels of light: the "dark light" around the wick of the candle, the white flame encompassing it, and an amorphous aura around the white flame itself. Each of these three levels of revealed light manifests a dimension contained within the invisible flame present in the coal. In general the flame symbolizes love, as is said: "as mighty as death is love...the flame of God." The dark light corresponds to the love of Israel, souls enclothed within physical bodies. The white light corresponds to the love of Torah. The aura corresponds to the love of God. These are the three essential manifestations of love as taught by the Ba'al Shem Tov. The fourth head of the shin of the future - the revelation of the essence of the coal itself - corresponds to the love of the Land of Israel and, as our Sages teach: "the Land of Israel will in the future spread to incorporate all the lands of the earth."

http://www.inner.org/hebleter/shin.htm