Genesis - Chapter 03 - Line 00065

Contemplative Summary

And YHWH God called to the human and said to him, “Where are you?”

The divine voice breaks the silence of hiding. The Hebrew vayiqra — “He called” — carries the same creative resonance that once summoned light and life, but now it calls into absence. This is not a demand for coordinates; it is a cry of relationship. Ayyekah — “where are you?” — is both question and invitation, reverberating through the space between presence and concealment. The Creator who once named creation now seeks the one who hides from naming himself.

Here the movement of creation reverses: instead of forming from dust, the word now searches through shadow. The question holds no accusation; it opens a path. In asking, God gives Adam voice again — the chance to answer, to locate his being not in geography but in awareness. The moment crystallizes the heart of divine pursuit: not punishment, but longing for reconnection.

To contemplate this line is to hear the same call sounding through every age — the eternal ayyekah, whispered whenever consciousness drifts from its center. It is the sound of love searching through the folds of distance, not to expose, but to reawaken. Perhaps the question has never ceased: not “where are you” as lost, but “where are you” as alive — a call for presence to return to itself.