the bird that flew above ben-Uziel
while he was davening went down in flames
although it's blameless, still its death befell
intruding on his focus on the Name
for Hillel, God's found by looking within
not somewhere in the firmament above
to localize Him thus would be to sin
'cause surely God is anywhere there's love
two Judaisms in the Rambam's scheme
one for adults, and one for all the rest
that God is One's less clear than it would seem
although both sages studied the same text
one God on high's met by the inward gaze
just one more mystery among His ways
while he was davening went down in flames
although it's blameless, still its death befell
intruding on his focus on the Name
for Hillel, God's found by looking within
not somewhere in the firmament above
to localize Him thus would be to sin
'cause surely God is anywhere there's love
two Judaisms in the Rambam's scheme
one for adults, and one for all the rest
that God is One's less clear than it would seem
although both sages studied the same text
one God on high's met by the inward gaze
just one more mystery among His ways
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