Oh my wife. I belong to you. I see the skin fold hurry under your eyelids. I want to be your sleep. I walk along your long grace. Your bones are hard to everyone’s stance but not to my fingers’ touch. There are tender demands when you open your lips, your tongue, your teeth. Your teeth are teaching my empty … Continue reading
Pesach time advances us from lowly national genut (deprivation) to shevach (blessings a’plenty.) Torah wants it this way — we are commanded to elevate, to ever-refine. The Haggadah is scripted as an emancipation from hopelessly bereft unto surfeit. Parallel this with modern Jewish history, advancing from the Shoah (re-enslavement) to Yom Ha’atzmaut (nation-creation.) Within three … Continue reading
BS”D Yom HaShoah :: A Family Lore Mother recounts younger brother David preparing for his bar mitzvah. Up and down the house day and night he sings. Vayetze Yaakov miBeersheva vayelech Charana. Jacob left Beersheva and went to Charan. With the special melodies of Torah reading, Mother sings it to us. The transports come, but … Continue reading
בראש יתברא 