Calvin Klein could never veil

what I see.    You

showing beyond the cloth

and swam of cotton threads

"Clothes make the man", they say

but it's soul, your soul

that's real, supporting flesh

beautiful as yours

"Go naked!", is more than

a Mystic phrase.  It's core

where God begins

and we end

Undress then

and know yourself

for once

*So it is on the spiritual path.  Inner rejuvenation comes only when the outer vessel has been set in place.  Then the very forms that originally seemed restrictive become liberating, for the practitioner has been freed from the fallen nature of reality.  The rose of tradition unfolds to reveal the presence 

of the Holy One within, and the flow of life released finds no better vehicle of expression than the very words of prayer one has been saying all along.

-Eliezer Shore

*Thus, in Judaism, this world is never abandoned.  It provides the tools with which we search for God, and ultimately becomes the channel through which God reveals Himself in our lives.  If our words of prayer have become routine, it is because we have not been saying  them long enough.  One must persevere with the practice despite the difficulty, until the forms reveal their inner meaning.  To keep digging for treasure long after one has abandoned hope of ever finding it.  We are given tools, and we must work with them.  In doing this, we build the vessels to receive.  Ultimately, God in His love and compassion, fills them with His presence.

The hidden things are the Lord our God's,

but the revealed things are ours and our

children's forever, that we may do all the 

words of this Torah (Dt. 29:28)

-Eliezer Shore