Type: Poem

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“I survey the garden / I’d cast myself from”

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“Remind me that salvation comes from / Looking up, looking out, looking in”

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“All of a sudden, there is a new quality to the light”

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Poem for the morning

Person with arms outstretched stands on a balcony overlooking a sunny cityscape.

“Then, finally, the doors opened. But I wasn’t ready. Not yet.”

A slightly open blue door with an antique handle, revealing a blurred view of a garden outside.

“How can I ask you for forgiveness”

Stone building with weathered steps and a blue door on a narrow street. Vegetation grows in cracks.

“this desert threatens to swallow us”

A person walks on a wooden bridge over a misty river in a foggy landscape.

“What a time! / What a parashah!”

a person's silhouette looks off into the distance

“Your birthright renews every breath”

A family stands in a field at sunset, as a child points toward the horizon.

“There are no kings / I trust, only ruakh”

a person faces a body of water, their hair blowing in the wind

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