May 21, 2012

Where Are You?

-Sam Doctors

January 24, 2011

 

Adam ate of the apple,

then hid himself

amid the trees of the Garden,

lying down near a citron bush,

seeking to make himself invisible.

 

 

A voice from the wind

 

 

murmured quietly, “Adam

Eyecha?

Where are you?”

Adam continued to abide

and revealed himself not.

 

 

When we eat of the apple

 

 

should we hear this voice -

“Eyecha?

Where are you?”

Should we hide?

Or with trepidation respond,

“Hineini, here I am.”

 

 

At each waking

 

 

this question every day –

“Where are you?”

Could it be the voice from

the whirlwind,

the voice from the burning bush,

the voice from the cloud at Sinai?

 

Surely He knows where I am,

even were I to hide in a

forest fastness, or under the sea,

then why the everlasting query?

And why my everlasting fear,

why my instinct always to hide,

why my reluctance to reveal myself,

why so very slow to say Hineini?

 

 

 

Prof. Doctors has held teaching positions for thirty-five years at the Harvard Business School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, the Univ. of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate Business School, the Haas School of Business at the Univ. of California, Berkeley and most recently at California State Univ., Hayward, He is the author and co-author of nine books, more than a hundred government sponsored research reports and more than fifty published articles, many in refereed journals. Prof. Doctors received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School (1969) and he also holds a Doctorate in Jurisprudence from the Harvard Law School (1967) and became a member of the Massachusetts Bar in 1967. He retired from active teaching at the end of December 2004.