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“We are at the beginning / Of new cycles / In a world that is ours / Transcending time and space.”
“But beat gentle, sinners and you, / you few righteous ones.”
A poem for the midnight service of selikhot
“It’s the kavanah of Shabbat, / not the halakha / which moves me.”
A moment of wonder during the morning service.
A poem to mark moments in a year of mourning.
“No wonder the desert was chosen over the pyramids, mountains and / ocean for revelation.”
A poem about early moments of grief
“I saw, in our decaf, the plea for rain / we ask on behalf of the god of our ancestors”

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