Type: Poem

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“With kindness, hope and strength Trusting in your process / May your insights become clear / Lifting you back to Divine Wisdom…”
Person in a white shirt holding their chest with both hands outdoors at sunset, suggesting chest pain.
“In the ripeness of the Ingathering, take of the seven species. / Shoulder your basket, golden or willow-green.”
three purple figs hanging on a green tree
“Turn and stretch yourself towards your fellow creatures, /animal or human…”
person sitting alone against a world head folded into their knees
“A fiery serpent / reproaching me for slithering away / from atoning for my transgressions?”
a brown and white copperhead snake set against brown rocks
“Let breath be the bridge from despair to hope…”
a pomegrantate in front of a brown shofar
A powerful poem, remembering those whose lives were lost on October 7th
a single leaf on the ground
“We peer from the edge, these days of fear…”
a yellow circle with colored paint around it, inside of the circle are clouds
“In the ruins of the towers / we walked through daily / you would have found letters…” and added them up to find meaning
Hebrew letters in a book, covered by a menorah with a star of david shining down
“In the cloud of despair, we sing a song / Of Hope…”
a woman sits wth hands on her forehead in sadness
“Where else, But in the love, The shalom That is HaShem, Can I find my comfort?”
a woman looking into the sunset

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