Type: Poem

What would you bring to the Mishkan?

“These are the blessings we learn from living in the world: / that loving other people /is loving ourselves.”

“Night will always become day / And day will come with answers…”

“To mark the haste with which we fled, / we now eat matzah for eight days”

“Yours is the earth, which blesses you in return.”

“What did it feel like to step over  that last sand dune one day after  walking forty years in the desert  and suddenly smell the sea?”

“How mighty is our God who hears our prayers /  and guides us through the / wilderness / of doubt and anxiety” 

“On the first day of Passover / we go for a walk on the beach…”

“Everything melted away except for the taste of warm dough and the salty reminder that we all come from the sea and  are nurtured by grains of the earth.”

“The blood-red droplets / make me think of Passover /. when we count and recount / the plagues our ancestors endured.”