I Believe: A Poem

Please remember, contestants, to phrase your answer in the form of a question.

               —Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy!™

I believe with a perfect faith in the coming of the messiah, though he may tarry.
—Late medieval reformulation of Maimonides’ 12th Principle of Faith, Commentary to the Mishna, Sanhedrin, Perek Helek.

In the days of the Messiah, each individual will perfect his soul to its root, and the holy sparks will ascend from their husks, which will become entirely null.
—Restatement of a key doctrine of Lurianic Kabbalah by R. Kalonymus Kalman Epstein (1753­–1825).

I believe, with a perfect                                                       faith, that the messiah will

be a Jeopardy champion,

whose answers, phrased as questions,                            will raise sparks of memory
  from husks of forgetfulness,

and return us to ourselves.

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