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We turn our thoughts to yesterday…to a world that lives only in our memory.
As we recall the days gone by, we know the past is irretrievable.
Yet—through the gift of memory, we recapture treasured…
Contributor:
Evelyn Mehlman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1980
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Upon arising in the morning, we acknowledge
God’s presence and compassion
I am grateful to You, living, enduring King, for restoring my soul to me in compassion. You are faithful beyond measure.
Contributor:
Jules Harlow
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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Wherever we stand to lift our eyes to heaven, that place is a Holy of Holies.
—S. Ansky
The sun descending settling
on the roof of the synagogue.
The cantor faces the open Ark,
His exhausted voice…
Contributor:
Herman Taube
Places:
Rockville, United States of America
Date:
1986
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It is up to us
To hallow Creation,
To respond to Life
With the fullness of our lives.
It is up to us
To meet the World,
To embrace the Whole
Even as we wrestle
With its parts.
It is up to us
To…
Contributor:
Rami M. Shapiro
Places:
Miami, United States of America
Date:
1988
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Jacques Lipchitz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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While man explores, with curious eye,
The works of nature and of art,
He passeth real wisdom by,
Nor cares to read the human heart.
A stranger to…
Contributor:
Penina Moïse
Places:
Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1867
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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 smell of fishink tships followed us down the stairs. Although we were all thinking about food, no one mentioned it but Brokheh. Did she let loose with a mouthful! She hoped to God, she said, that…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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On the holiest day we fast till sundown.
I watch the sun stand still
as the horizon edges towards it. Four hours to go.
The rabbi’s mouth opens and closes and opens.
I think: fish
and little steaming…
Contributor:
Chana Bloch
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1981