This poem shows human life through the imagery of the sea. Like ocean waves, life has calm times and tough storms. Each wave teaches us about strength, hope, and resilience.
The poem reminds us that after difficult times, peaceful shores and new starts are always ahead.
# Life Like an Ocean #
Life is an ocean, wide and deep,
Where dreams and memories gently sleep.
Each dawn arrives like a rising tide,
With hope and courage by our side.
Some waves sparkle in golden light,
Carrying laughter, warm and bright.
Some crash loudly upon the shore,
Leaving the tender heart a little sore.
Yet every wave that breaks apart
Carves a lesson within the heart.
Storms may roar and winds may cry,
But calmer seas are always nigh.
The tides may pull, the winds may bend,
But faith and strength help us mend.
Like drifting boats, we learn to steer
Through restless days and nights of fear.
And when the waves grow soft and mild,
Life smiles gently, like a child.
Whispering softly from sea to sky—
“Keep sailing on… your shore is nigh.”
(Vijay Verma)
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Retiredकलम 
How to correctly understand the 2nd Sinai commandment … interpreted specifically how it contrasts with the 1st Sinai commandment.
שמות כ:ב, that entire verse defines the 1st Sinai positive commandment. Which distinguishes the revelation of the Name שם השם (which I purposely do not write) from all other Divine Name references made in the Book of בראשית. These latter Divine Names, Avraham for example called upon אל שדי and did not know the שם השם. Meaning the prophets in the Book of בראשית called upon “their” God – who filled both the Heavens and the Earth. The revelation of the Torah at Sinai in the 1st Sinai commandment – the revelation that the שם השם, first and foremost a Spirit and not a word. The sin of the Golden Calf employs the word אלהים. Thereafter Moshe returned and fasted another 40 days and nights and received the revelation that the שם השם — a רוח הקןדש and not a word; furthermore this שם השם – radically differs from all the Divine Names which the Avot called upon in the Book of בראשית in that תורה לא בשמים היא. Herein defines the crux of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai לשמה. This Hebrew term לשמה, does not mean “for its own sake”. Rather that the Horev 13 tohor spirits אל רחום וחנון etc these spirits NOT words which the lips can pronounce. But rather spirit which dwell, as in the משל of the Mishkan where the Spirits of HaShem לשמה dwell within that structure as the נמשל revelation of השם — לא בשמים היא; meaning the revelation of the Torah לשמה, by definition excludes God in the Heavens above. For example: when a Jew visits a tomb, he tucks in his tzitzit because mitzvot do not apply to the World to Come.
Whereas שמות ג-ו. The verse שמות כ:ז serves as the most distinct fundamental contrast between doing all Torah mitzvot thereafter לשמה – the first commandment; from the 2nd negative commandment which this general negative commandment through the specific verb תשתחוה which most essentially means “do not believe” expressed through the “metaphor” – bow down. All av tuma avoda zarah theologies, creeds and/or belief systems most fundamentally require a stated belief in “other Gods”. The first commandment וצאתיך מצרים מבית עבדים stands upon the משנה תורה\common law/ precedent of the oath sworn at the brit of pieces. בראשית טו:יג — ויאמר אל אברם ידע תדע כי גר יהיה זרעך בארץ לא להם ועבדו אתם וענו אתם ארבע מאות שנה. What makes this interesting, Israel was but 210 years in Egypt not four hundred years. חז”ל interprets the time difference to the Egyptian g’lut from the birth of Yitzak. Despite Yitzak never leaving the land of Canaan, Yitzak lived under the authority of foreign kings, no different from the post Babylonian exile where Judea existed as a ”banana republic” under the Persians, the Greek empires, both in Egypt and in Syria, and also by the Roman empire. The Talmud instructs that throughout the entire 2nd Temple period, Jews did not ever once keep the Yovel – the 50th year of freedom – declared throughout the land of Judea. Why?
This declaration of Freedom fundamentally requires that Jews rule Judea as a free Independent nation! Hence the “g’lut” described at the brit cut between the pieces states 400 years, because starting with the birth of Yitzak “freedom” which requires that an Independent Great Sanhedrin Court in Jerusalem makes this Yovel declaration did not exist. During the approximately 110 years of Hashmonaim kings who ruled Judea following the successful revolt against the Syrian Greek empire, political and social anarchy, chaos, and Civil Wars defined this entire period. Herein explains how the Talmud instructs that during the entire period of the 2nd Temple, a span of about 450 years, Jews never once sanctified the mitzva of the Yovel.
Both the Nicene Creed and the conversion to being a Muslim center on a theological belief that a person much “buy” to be either a Xtian or Muslim. Hence “belief” functions as the יסוד of all av tuma avoda zara. The Talmud interprets the 2nd Sinai commandment specifically through 1. Assimilation and 2. Intermarriage.
Examples of these two יסודות of av tuma avoda zarah: Penchas killing the head of the tribe of Shimon, the war against Midian where Bil’aam advised seducing Israel with wine and women; from here the חז”ל made Goyim wine forbidden to drink together with eating Goyim made bread. King Sholomo foreign wives directly linked to his avoda zara. Ezra’s demand that Jews returning from Babylonian exile with foreign wives must divorce these women. Also when Jews built the 2nd Temple they rejected the assistence of the Shomronim imported by the Assyrian empire to replace the populations of the 10 Tribes with foreign alien conquered people who eventually “converted” to the God of the land out of fear for lions.
Another contrast to the distinction between 400 and 210 years, the manner that the Reshonim scholars interpreted אנכי ה’ אלהיך, as the mitzva to know (לדעת) that there is one God. That He is the sole source of existence and authority. And that He is personally connected to (“…אשר הוצאתיך”) Israel alone. Only the 12 Tribes of Israel accepted the Torah at Sinai; Esav rejected the Torah – do not murder. And Yishmael rejected the Torah – do not steal. If a ger tzeddik refuses even one Torah commandment, the court which weighs his New Creation status rejects him or her. This fundamentally rejects the Pauline NT ‘grafted’ as utter nonsense.
Another fundamental component of av tuma avoda zara – it belief system theologies or creeds etc seek to insert a substitutional belief system which the Torah fundamentally rejects. The Primary source מכילתא instructs acceptance of מלכות שמים, specifically as expressed in the tefilla from the Torah mitzva of קריא שמע, which rabbi Yochanon extended to all sworn blessings contrasted by שבח Tehillem “praises”. The latter lacks שם ומלכות.
The mitzva of kre’a shma, like shabbat, or Moshiach – all wisdom Torah commandments which require k’vanna. This latter abstract term understood as the dedication of one or more of the 13 Oral Torah “spirits” which define the שם השם לשמה revealed in the first Sinai commandment. רוח הקודש not words, like the word אלהים which the ערב רב שאין להם יראת אלהים called the Golden Calf. Time-oriented commandments the purpose of observance of “ALL” Torah and Talmudic commandments and mitzvot – according to how the B’HaG learns. Contrast the Sefer HaMitzvot of assimilated Rambam whose book compares to storing eggs by the dozen; he restricts all the תרי”ג mitzvot limited to positive and negative commandments which do not require the wisdom which dedicates a Oral Torah spirit as defined through Torah and NaCH prophetic mussar.
Virtually all rabbinic Jewish authorities throughout the ‘Golden Age’ Spain, duplicated the infidelity of the T’zeddukim as defined through the Hanukkah lights. Rambam serves as the exposed example. But assimilation and intermarriage defined the curse of the 2nd Sinai commandment which resulted in Jewish Civil Wars and forced expulsions from virtually all European countries; specifically England, France, the German kingdom, Spain, and the late 19th Century Czarist mass expulsion of Jews from Russia prior to the Bolshevik revolution.
Assimilated Rambam replaced the inductive logic kabbalah of Rabbis Hillel, Akiva, Yishmael – which interprets Halacha; and Yossi HaGalil’s “32 Middot” which interprets Aggada — all collectively included under the umbrella known as פרדס inductive reasoning which defines the revelation of the 13 tohor middot of Horev post sin of the Golden Calf abomination. The Rambam organized his Yad halachic code in the same manner he did his Sefer Ha’Mitzvot – into rigid Greek philosophy deductive syllogism logic. This fundamentally profanes דברים יב:ל,לא — do not ask how Goyim worship their Gods that I may do likewise. Roman statute laws – decreed by government authorities do not compare nor resemble to judicial rulings which have the power to re-interpret (Legislative Review) all laws imposed by kings, Senates or other cult of personality authorities – Caesar for example embraced the idea that he lived as the son of God.
Yet assimilated Rambam organized his Yad which directly duplicated the method of both Greek and Roman statute law! Rambam failed to understand that Gemara halachot contained within a specific sugya of Gemara, חז”ל brought as בניני אבות precedents – akin to different witnesses unique perspectives – of a specific Mishnaic judicial ruling. The Rambam’s replacement theology arbitrarily organized, based upon Greek logic, Gemara halachot independent of the Mishna – a fundamental error. Halachot from the Gemara do not stand upon their own feet any more than Reshonim comments made upon the Talmud. Once the Talmud sealed – this Primary Source – forever separated from temporary Reshonim or thereafter secondary or tertiary sources.
Reshonim opinions do not and cannot permanently define sealed masoret primary sources. Reshonim by definition existed in cursed g’lut. The language מצרים based upon the above mentioned 400 years in a foreign land – לאו דוקא. G’lut Jews – as slaves – cannot do mitzvot לשמה. Therefore the temporary need that g’lut Jewry experience at the height of the barbaric Dark Ages does not apply to the Independent Jewish state achieved post the ’48 and ’67 Wars of National Independence. Anymore than the UN has a mandate to determine the borders of a Palestinian state after David Ben Gurion declared the national Independence of Israel.
The מדרש which references (ספרי / מכילתא traditions about עשו וישמעאל), it seems to me directly invalidates any and all belief systems whose theologies promote a Monotheisitic Universal God, which the assimilated Rambam openly embraced with both his minority Reshon interpretation of 7 mitzvot applicable to all Goyim in all lands together with his permission that Jews can daven tefillah in Mosques. The god of Israel only the 12 tribes accepted. But even that, according to rabbi Akiva’s interpretation that the Wilderness Generation has no portion in the World to Come. Therefore the god of Israel a local tribal god and not a Monotheistic Universal God which the theologies of both church and mosque worship. In like manner, בראשית-ברית אש means oath alliance sworn לשמה. This interpretation of the סודות of the word בראשית (a Pardes logic), does not mean “covenant” anymore than the word ONE in the opening verse of kre’a shma refers to Monotheism.
The language שם ומלכות does not refer to acceptance of any “king”. Rather the burden to direct the Yatzir Ha’tov tohor middot to rule the Yatzir Ha’ra middot within the heart – as rabbi Yechuda defines בכל לבבך within the language of kre’a shma. כונה a wisdom commandment stands separate from the toldot positive and negative Torah commandments which do not require k’vanna.
Post the Rambam induced – his משנה תורה – Tzeddukim Civil War wherein they sought to convert Jerusalem into a Greek polis, all Reshonim and later rabbinic authorities wrote their commentaries upon the halachic codes, not limited to the כסף משנה statute law commentary but inclusive of all commentaries written on the common law codes of the B’HaG, Rif, Rosh, and Baali Tosafot – following the ירידות הדורות-Rambam “domino effect” wherein later rabbinic authorities confuse T’NaCH/Talmudic\Midrashim common law which learns from פרדס logic precedents to the alien imported statute law codes which pretend that Gemara and later Reshonim opinions – like as define both the Tur and Beit Yosef commentaries – determine religious halachic decrees.
The framers of the Mishna and Gemara wrote their works as a model when Jews reconquered the homelands from the Roman barbarians and achieved an Independent Jewish Sanhedrin common law court system which alone possess the power to declare the Yovel. Even the RambaN in his famous commentary to the Chumas teaches that g’lut Jews cannot keep Torah mitzvot! G’lut Jews observe these mitzvot so they do not forget what it means to establish the chosen Cohen society in the reconquered land of Canaan.
“מלך העולם” (standard ברכה language) compares to the twice repeated תמיד מעשה בראשית in the opening שחרית kre’a shma blessings. The term מלאכה close to מלאכים referenced within this first blessing. The wisdom creation story משל requires the Pardes דיוק which makes the required נמשל; wisdom commandment/time-oriented commandments create from nothing (יש מאין) the chosen Cohen people. This interpretation of the purpose for all wisdom Av time-oriented commandments fundamentally rejects the Goyim notion which continually slanders Jews as an inferior race – made famous by the לאו דוקא Nazi barbarians.
The טיפש פשט literalism that God created the world in 6 days and rested upon the 7th: 1. fails to discern wisdom commandments/time-oriented commandments (like as did the Rambam Sefer HaMitzvot code). 2. That is the “רוחהקודש” k’vanna of these mitzvot which תמיד מעשה בראשית creates the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot from generation to generation. The revelation of the Torah at Sinai, inclusive of the Book of בראשית. The טיפש פשט that reads the Torah in a historical chronological order fails to grasp that the revelation of judical common law stands upon Pardes/middot precedents, and therefore has no fixed order. For example: the twice repeated עשרת הדבורות – in point of fact never commanded in this rigid Code of Hammurabi format.
Following the revelation of the 2nd Sinai commandment Israel feared for their lives and demanded that Moshe make the aliya and receive the rest of the Torah! Why does the Torah then repeat the עזרת דבורות? Torah common law stands upon the יסוד of precedents! The עזרת דבורות “remember” the 10 plagues whereby the god of Israel judged the Gods of both Egypt and later Canaan in the days of Yehoshua the prophet.
In like manner assimilated Rambam stands virtually alone, even among Reshonim sources, when he poskins halacha from Aggadic sources like his 7 mitzvot bnai noach narishkeit. Goyim never accepted the Torah revelation at Sinai. Violation of the 7 mitzvot – the Talmud classifies as a Capital Crime. Only a Sanhedrin court can judge capital crimes. The jurisdiction of Sanhedrin courts limited, no different than the Yovel, to within the borders of an Independent Jewish state in the land of Canaan. Therefore the 7 mitzvot bnai noach referred to in mesechta Sanhedrin can only refer to gere toshav which the Torah distinguishes from na’cree/Canaani\Shomronim.
G’lut Jews by definition cannot grasp Pardes middot. The Reshonim Universally failed to affix דרוש\פשט to Aggadic sources in the Shas and רמז/סוד to the halachic portions of the Shas. The local god of Israel limited only to Israel because Moshe sent as a מלאך to Egypt based upon HaShem who remembered the oaths sworn to the Avot. The chosen Cohen seed learns directly from Sarah who commanded Avraham to cast out the bondwoman and her son, that only Yitzak would inherit the Cohen brit faith. Neither the NT nor Koran once brings the word ברית. Covenant does not mean brit. Because to swear a Torah oath requires שם ומלכות and neither books of avoda zara ever bring רוח הקודש Name but rather sin of Golden Calf word translations. The opening verse of the gospel of John – and the word is God. Utterly false to declare: The נמשל never removes God from being בורא ומלך על כל העולם. No man can grasp the Divine anymore that any ant can comprehend human civilizations! The Mishna teaches this in a strong warning: those who contemplate about matters “above them”, “beneath them”, or “behind them” – better that such persons never born.
“גלות Jews cannot grasp פרדס” … just as slaves cannot own property, based upon remembering the slavery of Par’o and Egypt. Rabbi Akiva, Yishmael lived under Roman tyranny occupation. This Tannaic Masoret of Pardes serves to amplify the k’vanna of the 13 tohor רוח הקודש middot of Horev – following the sin of the Golden Calf.
Rashi serves as witness. His Chumash commentary validates Torah common law through his blending of דרוש\פשט. He lived during the Xtian obliteration of the Jews of Germany on their way to duplicate that same obliteration of Jews under Arab rule during the 1st Crusades. Therefore, he limited his Talmudic commentary primarily to a dictionary like definition of obscure terms. This forced his grand children – the Baali Tosafot – to correct his commentary to the Talmud. Rashi feared, as the later public burning of the Talmud in Paris 1242 proved the Goyim hatred of Jews. He therefore wrote his Talmudic commentary which concealed the Aggadic דרוש\פשט axis of Pardes inductive logic limited to his Chumash commentary to prevent the church barbarians from discovering how to learn Talmudic common law.
The God of Israel always local. Elie Wiesel “Where was God” throughout the Shoah. Equally applies to where was JeZeus during the Shoah or where was Allah during the Nakba of both ’48 and ’67 Arab defeats which failed to throw the Jews into the Sea and accomplish the Nazi Shoah in the Middle East. The Torah limits “אמונה” strictly and only to צדק צדק תרדוף – based upon the oppression of the court of Par’o who withheld the necessary straw but condemned the Hebrew slaves for their laziness. No Goyim court, not the court of Par’o or the court in any g’lut Goyim lands ever once force the church or mosque authorities to stand trial for genocide or war crime as did the ICC which Israel never signed the Rome Agreement yet nonetheless attempted to impose its jurisdiction and declare the Israeli PM a war criminal post the Oct7th 2023 UNWRA & Hamas massacree of over 1300 Jews and the Red Cross failure to even once visit stolen Israelis held in torture tunnels for 2 years!
The error “God is never geographically limited”, fails to account for the Cohen lands of Canaan, which limits the inheritance of the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot. דברים לו:יח – הסתר פנים restricted to the Life\Death – Blessing/Curse interpretation of the first two Sinai commandments. Ruling the land of Canaan with judicial justice which makes fair restitution of damages inflicted by Jews upon other Jews to restore the brit alliance among our people which stands shalom upon the יסוד of trust … clearly limited like the example of the Yovel.
“צדק צדק תרדוף” the most essential defining comprehension of Torah and NaCH prophetic mussar of faith. This utterly contradict the NT alien import of belief in a Roman messiah as god concept. Or the Koran notion that prophets sent to all nations who never accepted the Torah at Sinai; starting with the Koran replacement of Yishmael for Yitzak at the akadah. Bnai Brit common law courts have the Torah faith obligation to pursue righteous justice among our brit allied people.
The בראשית comprehension of מלוא כל הרץ כבודו — לה’ הארץ ומלואה learns from the precedent of the flood of Noach. The floods did not reach the oath sworn lands of Canaan. צדק defines the obligation of the oath brit faith within the Cohen inheritance lands of Canaan. Goyim courts do not compare or resemble Sanhedrin courts. The latter common law courts with the Torah constitutional mandate to make משנה תורה-legislative review of any and all laws imposed by the 12 Tribal governments of the Republic and/or the Central government/king in Jerusalem. These courts “lateral courts”. Goyim courts, vertical courts; where the State pays the salaries of the Judges and prosecuting attorneys. The Torah refers to this latter court system through the negative commandment which prohibits judges from accepting bribes. Torah Sanhedrin courts limited strictly and only to the Independent Cohen nation within conquered Canaan.
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Absolutely loved this poem! As a person born by the sea and who has lived by the sea all his life, I feel very attached to the oceans and the seas of the world. Your words have truly resonated and have brought a smile to my face and the recognition that you have precisely placed the oceans in the right place in our spirituality, they are the reflection of our life and our road to eternity. Lovely poem indeed Sir.
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Verma ji, what a beautiful and uplifting poem! The way you’ve woven the rhythm of the sea into the journey of human life is truly moving. Lines like “Yet every wave that breaks apart / Carves a lesson within the heart” stay with the reader long after reading. Your words bring both comfort and courage—reminding us that storms pass, and calm shores await. Thank you for sharing this gentle masterpiece. 🙏🌊
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