The Repair
O dear pious ones –
When you open your mouth
Whose voice do you hear?
Who speaks through you?
Be a maggid
Be a poet
Be mantic
Be a vessel
Be a Torah
Be quiet
Be oracular
Be vatic
Be sybilline
A maggid
A mishnah a neshamah
An anagram for the soul
Be nothing
Be nothing
An empty vessel for G*d.
— R. Yosef Caro HaMeChaber