Shabbat Shalom beloved friends 💜
This month of Iyar, this month of healing, is spelled two ways – אִייָר or אִיָּר – with one yod or two. When g-d forms the Adam, the first human, the verb unexpectedly has two yods as well. And our rabbis argue about what this means, making references to a variety of binaries – This World and The World to Come, the Good Inclination and the Bad Inclination, etc.
Whatever the two yods are in this moment to us, whatever those parts that seem split and in opposition, let us realize they are all of the same whole. The parts of the system I’ve internalized sometimes turns me against myself, pitting split trauma selves in unwinnable fights. Let us learn to make those oppositions “ezer k’ eged” a helper opposite. Let us move towards one day meeting these oppositions in the love of “panim el pnanim,” face to face. May some of our healing begin to bridge the binaries that harm us – turning two yods into one.
See you on the other side of grappling with rest.
eish zarah 
Hi Reuven, This is lovely. Just thought you might want to fix the hebrew. I think the phrases you want are “ezer k’negdo”, עֵ֖זֶר כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ or if you want to remove the possessive and avoid the gendering, you could change it to “ezer k’neged”. The other one is “panim el panim” פָּנִ֖ים אֶל־פָּנִֽים
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That’s what I get for typing this right before Shabbos and not proof reading anything 😂 Thank you!