Ahavat ha'akher ena ela                                Loving another is merely

ahavat ha'ani ba'akher.                                    Loving Myself in another.

Ba'akher ani:                                                In the Other I:

Khesronot                                                    Shortcomings

Ke'evim                                                        Pains

Nikudei turpa                                                Vulnerabilities

Kabala lelo hatnaya                                       the Unconditional Intercourse of

Ahavim.                                                            Love.

Lehitama bahem                                                Subsumed

Ulehatmia.                                                        Engulfing.

Ulam shel mar'ot,                                            A Hall of Mirrors,

Gvulut ben shtei aratsot nokhriot,                    Two Bounded States,

Ir prazot                                                         an Open City   

vehaohev basha'ar,                                            my Lover at its gates,

Gesher khovek                                                a Bridge hugging

tehomot,                                                            an abyss,

Migdal mamri, kulo safa belula,                       a tower, heaven reached, wholly confounded language,

Mabul.                                                            a Deluge.

Verak anakhnu,                                              And only Us,

Shnayim beteiva venoakh                                two of a sort,

li velakh.                                                        an Ark, a Covenant.