God took a rib--or should we read a "side"?
'cause it's not good that Man should be alone
to bring Adom Kadmon his perfect bride
alike as flesh and blood and skin and bone
in splitting Sea from Land, and Dark from Light
divisions were each made in equal part
analogously, cleaving Man from Wife
His scalpel should have cleft right through the heart
an equal share of Ruach Elohim
is granted Woman in our Primal text
translators made her less in our esteem
projecting their skewed notions about sex
translations sacrifice the poetry
confronted with such ambiguity
'cause it's not good that Man should be alone
to bring Adom Kadmon his perfect bride
alike as flesh and blood and skin and bone
in splitting Sea from Land, and Dark from Light
divisions were each made in equal part
analogously, cleaving Man from Wife
His scalpel should have cleft right through the heart
an equal share of Ruach Elohim
is granted Woman in our Primal text
translators made her less in our esteem
projecting their skewed notions about sex
translations sacrifice the poetry
confronted with such ambiguity
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