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Open your mouth
To feed that flesh
Your teeth have bled
Tongue us out
Bone by bone
Do not allow
Man to be fed
By bread alone
“And He afflicted thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with…
Contributor:
Samuel Menashe
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Please, increase the intensity of your signals.
Here I
can’t hear, can’t know, if you’ve
stuck another iron flower in the lapel
of the antenna. You’re so delicate. Why
are you so soft, why are you…
Contributor:
Be’eri Hazak
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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Oh, Father of great mercy
In sunset’s flame there fades
My cradle land
That was once nearer to me than my salt-crusted shirt
Where with my brother Russian
I shared more than once
A measly bite of…
Contributor:
Yoysef Kerler
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1990
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Oh my God, my God,
Mighty One of my existence,
have mercy on Your lost son
who has wandered from the ancestral path
and, exiled to cold and unfamiliar climes,
sought to be close to You,
but has not…
Contributor:
Hillel Bavli
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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A fire [of joy] is kindled within me, when I recall [the spiritual climate] when I was in Yemen,
[But] my soul [descended to] abysmal depths and was immensely astounded when I came to Zion.
The Jews…
Contributor:
Shalom Rada’i
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1951
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Let us chant, my brothers,
this dirge together,
for God severed our hands
by this disaster.
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Unknown
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
ca. 1827
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Being a Jew means running forever to God
even if you are His betrayer,
means expecting to hear any day,
even if you are a nay sayer,
the blare of Messiah’s horn;
means, even if you wish to,
you…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Father, adonoi, author of all things
of the three states,
the soft light on the barn at dawn,
a wind that sings
in the bracken, fire in iron gates,
the ram’s horn,
Furnisher, hinger of…
Contributor:
Anthony Hecht
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
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The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
Judah is in mourning,
Her settlements languish.
Men are bowed to the ground,
And the outcry of Jerusalem rises.
The…
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Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
For you have fallen because of your sin.
Take words with you
And return to the Lord.
Say to Him:
“Forgive all guilt
And accept what is good;
Instead of bulls…
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