There are ten days of teshuvah/transformation
A piece for every day
Teshuvah: Go Home
An old drunk from Glasgow helped him come home
Only someone that lost
Can help someone else home
Emptied out
Failing in public ways
This helped too
What he thought he knew
Inadequate
This helped bring him home
To have nothing left with which to struggle
This helped bring him home
To lose in order to win
To be empty in order to fill up
This helped bring him home
To be down
Small
All helped carry him home
He came to appreciate
Everything
Rabbi Akiva was sitting next to him
On a bench
The day he took the bus home
Said Rabbi Akiva
Do what you’re supposed to do
Do it when you’re supposed to do it
And don’t do what you’re not supposed to do
Everything else
Commentary
Go home
Said Rabbi Akiva