Under<\/p>\n
Stand<\/p>\n
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But never<\/p>\n
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Stand<\/p>\n
Under<\/p>\n
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A falling dream<\/p>\n
(Or bridge).<\/p>\n
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A bit standoffish is a Mexican standoff<\/p>\n
\u2013 Almost like a snob who cannot stand<\/p>\n
Anyone or anything without a nose job \u2013<\/p>\n
So we only stand on, on what is right<\/p>\n
On what is true, and on what is pure.<\/p>\n
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High standards and higher standings,<\/p>\n
A grandstand of standup comics,<\/p>\n
Standalone cynics and standstill<\/p>\n
Procrastinators<\/p>\n
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(Also of the stand-ins and sit-outs<\/p>\n
Who make up the organism that is<\/p>\n
Humanity)<\/p>\n
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Take a stand<\/p>\n
\u2013 Of course \u2013 but never<\/p>\n
Stand a take<\/p>\n
That is fake, false, fabricated:<\/p>\n
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You see, the stands of time may trickle through<\/p>\n
The narrow center of the hourglass, but even a pun<\/p>\n
Could never throw cold water on that which is<\/p>\n
Timeless.<\/p>\n
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You are standing this day
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All of you before G-d<\/i><\/p>\n
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Bond\u2026 Eternal Bond:<\/p>\n
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(What, you think Fleming made it up?)<\/p>\n
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Coming into the land,<\/p>\n
It is time to renew our<\/p>\n
Bond, our connection<\/p>\n
Our unity and oneness,<\/p>\n
With G-d and each other.<\/p>\n
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Coming into a new reality,<\/p>\n
A new place, a new year, it is time<\/p>\n
To stand up and stand together \u2013<\/p>\n
This day and from this day<\/p>\n
To this year and form this<\/p>\n
Year to every year\u2026<\/p>\n
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Time to be standing<\/p>\n
All of us before G-d<\/p>\n
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A Standing (and tall) Order:<\/p>\n
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Standing before the divine comes in two forms \u2013<\/p>\n
Both upright:<\/p>\n
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1: Standing together because we need<\/i> each other.<\/p>\n
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I am incomplete without you; you are incomplete without me:<\/p>\n
I need you; you need me \u2013 without each other I\u2019d be a detail<\/p>\n
Stuck in my own ghettos with my own perspectives, as would you:<\/p>\n
We need each other to be whole, one, absolute; we need each other<\/p>\n
To do, to be what alone we never could, never would.<\/p>\n
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2: Standing together because we are<\/i> each other.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t need you; you don\u2019t need me \u2013 I am you, you are me.<\/p>\n
We aren\u2019t separate details coming together for a common goal;<\/p>\n
We are a complete whole, a soul, perhaps at times residing in<\/p>\n
Different homes, different bodies (tell me, is a hand any less<\/p>\n
A body part than a foot, even though one wears a glove and<\/p>\n
The other a sock?)<\/p>\n
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And we need to stand together in both of these forms:<\/p>\n
If we only had the first then we could remain details in<\/p>\n
Our own right without transcending the differences, for<\/p>\n
Only by essentially being one can we use each our unique<\/p>\n
Gifts to actually implement the unity; if we only had the<\/p>\n
Second, we would remain one, essentially, internally, but<\/p>\n
Our individual contributions would never be realized and<\/p>\n
Felt<\/p>\n
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It takes a complete effort to reach a complete picture<\/p>\n
To reach the highest of all standings \u2013<\/p>\n
Life!<\/p>\n
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I have placed before you
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Life and death, blessing and curse
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And you shall choose life<\/i><\/p>\n
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And Life it shall be.<\/p>\n
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A happy and sweet new year!<\/p>\n
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(How could it ever be otherwise when<\/p>\n
We are all standing this day before G-d?)<\/p>\n