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“I do not know the right answer. / I do not know how to end hatred.”
sunrise through the clouds
“may the day arrive / when every life is a treasure…”
green grass, trees and a stream
“On Hanukkah, I light candles for them…”
a single candle flame burns in a menorah
” And when this holiday ends, another flame will rise and fall, and another, and another…”
Hanukkah candles lit in two hanukkiyot
This Hanukkah 2023 ritual acknowledges the incompleteness of joy while captives are being held.
a hanukkan menorah with all lights lit but the eighth candle
“There is a war going on, / with battle aims that are different…”
a person walks in a lit field
“I cannot find the words / I seek…”
a child sleeping
This new poem uses the imagery of water through a faucet to capture the feeling of waiting for the captives to be released.
a water droplet
“Try not to think / of the children who are not getting their baths, / who are not getting their parents.”
person wearing brown tallit silhouetted against the sunset
“There is a line / drawn by darkness, emboldened by Evil, itself…”
sunshine through a giant cloud illuminating the sky

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