Regis Korchinski-Paquet
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may your memories be a blessing
may we live now to bless your memoriesÂ
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“we were all at Sinai”
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but too many of youÂ
fixed your
eyes uponÂ
The Mountain
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so desperately thatÂ
generationsÂ
you could
not dare imagine
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at this moment uncontrollablyÂ
weeping
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can youÂ
look up
and
see
the thunderÂ
can you embrace
the unwritten
time
the unfinished rhyme
of g-d’s perfect storm
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of your unseen ancestors
raining down
breaking apart the floodgates of heaven?
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torahThe Five Books of Moses, and the foundation of all of Jewish life and lore. The Torah is considered the heart and soul of the Jewish people, and study of the Torah is a high mitzvah. The Torah itself a scroll that is hand lettered on parchment, elaborately dressed and decorated, and stored in a decorative ark. It is chanted aloud on Mondays, Thursdays, and Shabbat, according to a yearly cycle. Sometimes "Torah" is used as a colloquial term for Jewish learning and narrative in general. is a teardropÂ
torah is a wave
torah is change
we are change
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Heavenward
