Keter the Crown Known as Nothing.

Keter the Crown Known as Nothing. Crowns float on the leather spines of the thick s'forim, Hebrew books in the rabbi's basement, Boro Park. His library stacked from foot to crown, books north, south, east, west. The walls lean in, a nightmare of law or a secret dream of knowledge. His hands tremble, volunteering for disorder. He told me I was wrong, but softly-- to speak of meditation. But what is wrong in Nothing? In Nothing, a bookstore clerk could be king, and I a rabbi in a book of rabbis, with leather straps binding forearms and hand and fontanelle fontanelle/fon��ta��nelle/ (fon?tah-nel��) a soft spot, such as one of the membrane-covered spaces remaining at the junction of the sutures in the incompletely ossified skull of the fetus or infant. where I chanted and chanted and saw and saw how the Crown, known as Nothing, floats above human understanding above wisdom, invisible radiant, low part of excellence, bottom of a higher world. I know nothing, nothing at all. My Hebrew is dumb as a torn page. On the red binding of the rabbi's book, 4 triangles, 4 golden knobs, a four pointed crown like the letter sh, sound before silence. The rabbi said, "Meditation? I've heard nothing. My father never heard of it either." RODGER KAMENETZ Rodger Kamenetz is a poet and author. He was born in Baltimore in 1950, educated at Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in New Orleans and holds a dual appointment as Professor of English and Professor of Religious Studies at LSU. is poetry editor of Forward. His books of poetryinclude The Missing Jew (1992) and Stuck (1995). He lives in NewOrleans New Orleans(ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . Other books: The Jew in the Lotus, Stalking Criminal activity consisting of the repeated following and harassing of another person.Stalking is a distinctive form of criminal activity composed of a series of actions that taken individually might constitute legal behavior. Elijah, TerraInfirma.