Let us begin at the end:<\/p>\n
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All live happily ever after.<\/p>\n
Beauty, peace and harmony<\/p>\n
Walk hand in hand, their faces<\/p>\n
Glowing in the radiant sun shining<\/p>\n
Forth a blaze from heaven\u2019s depths<\/p>\n
To the clarity that is man and purity<\/p>\n
That is his being and essence; over the<\/p>\n
Crystal-tender streams of consciousness\u2026<\/p>\n
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(Real consciousness, the kind that is not<\/p>\n
Only conscious of the fact but also of the<\/p>\n
Dream, the kind that is not conscious of ones<\/p>\n
Own being but of the Being that is Supreme and<\/p>\n
Eternal, the kind that is not only conscious of one\u2019s<\/p>\n
Limitations but also of one\u2019s \u2013 and another\u2019s \u2013 possibilities<\/p>\n
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It would seem we\u2019ve lost our<\/p>\n
Own stream of consciousness<\/p>\n
So back to the end)<\/p>\n
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\u2026Over the crystal-tender streams of consciousness,<\/p>\n
Straight through the subtle baby-breath whispers of<\/p>\n
Promises fulfilled and destinies realized, and beyond<\/p>\n
Anything the greatest artist could ever paint or even<\/p>\n
Envision, there floats what the prophets would call<\/p>\n
Redemption but what in simple terms is: Divine knowledge,<\/p>\n
The realization that the G-dliness we\u2019ve never actually<\/p>\n
Seen is now reality and the universe we\u2019ve always touched<\/p>\n
Now suddenly seems to slip right through our very fingers.<\/p>\n
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This is the end; but in reality it is the beginning:<\/p>\n
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It happened at the end
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Of two years to the day<\/i><\/p>\n
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In English, the word \u201cend\u201d<\/p>\n
Is final<\/p>\n
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In the Holy Tongue, it<\/p>\n
Is culmination<\/p>\n
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This end of which the Torah speaks<\/p>\n
Is a result, an outcome of the events<\/p>\n
Preceding \u2013 this \u201cend,\u201d where Yosef<\/p>\n
Arises to great heights, to unbelievable<\/p>\n
Expansion which would shape the people<\/p>\n
And change the course of history \u2013 and<\/p>\n
Future \u2013 forever, is a result, an outcome<\/p>\n
Of the challenges he refined and the bars<\/p>\n
Behind which he was shackled\u2026<\/p>\n
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In the realm of a purely physical existence,<\/p>\n
Things end, come to an end, go to an end;<\/p>\n
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But Truth, Holiness, never ends: it merely culminates.<\/p>\n
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False pretense, store-bought beauty fades with time and space;<\/p>\n
True beauty never ends: it is merely the product of all our work<\/p>\n
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Much gets lost in translation;<\/p>\n
The lesson from Mikeitz should not:<\/p>\n
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There are times when we are imprisoned<\/p>\n
Within our own limitations, only left to<\/p>\n
Interpret dreams sometimes not even our<\/p>\n
Own; however, this is merely a transient<\/p>\n
State, not an end; indeed, this can lead one<\/p>\n
Straight to the top \u2013 from the confines of<\/p>\n
Prison to a prince among men, ending, no,<\/p>\n
Culminating with the \u201capproach\u201d and embrace<\/p>\n
Of brothers, worlds once divided now made<\/p>\n
Complete<\/p>\n
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All\u2019s well that ends<\/p>\n
Well<\/p>\n
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The End<\/p>\n
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(That is, the time for all of heaven\u2019s and earth\u2019s beauty<\/p>\n
To culminate)<\/p>\n