Type: Poem

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Who will make chicken soup for the dejected?

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I smashed my father’s statues and stood alone in the fragmenting dark

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“When I feel most broken / pulled apart / when every door unhinged / is opened / but feels closed”

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Praise that comes after pain

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We are all together walking home, on the road of teshuva

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As we prepare to trace the world’s beginnings, may we choose life

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