By Chana Bloch
On the holiest day we fast till sundown.
I watch the sun stand still
as the horizon edges toward it. Four…
I watch the sun stand still
as the horizon edges toward it. Four…
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- By Yehudah Haleviall my desire is here before you,
whether or not I speak of it:
I'd seek your favor, for an instant,… - By Solomon Ibn GabirolI look for you early,
my rock and my refuge,
offering you worship
morning and night;
before your vastness… - By Robin BeckerI’ve expanded like the swollen door in summer
to fit my own dimension. Your loneliness
is a letter … - By Adrienne Rich
What is a Jew in solitude?
What would it mean not to feel lonely or afraid
far from your own or those… - By Marge PiercyThe hinge of the year
the great gates opening
and then slowly slowly
closing on us.
I always imagine… - By Robert PinskyThey stack bright pyramids of goods and gather
Mop-helves in sidewalk barrels. They keen, they boogie… - By Maxine KuminThe roasting alive of rabbis
in the ardor of the Crusades
went unremarked in Europe from
the Holy … - By Jessica GreenbaumBecause you used to leaf through the dictionary,
Casually, as someone might in a barber shop, and
Devotedly… - By AnonymousOpen the gates—the gates of the Temple,
Swift to Thy sons, who Thy truths have displayed.
Open the gates… - By Kalonymos ben Moses of LuccaHis sovereignty is o’er my gathered throng;
His glory is my faith within,
I seek Him for atonement of… - By AnonymousFor we are thy people, and thou art our God;
We are thy children and thou our father.
We are thy servants… - By Solomon Ephraim Ben Aaron of LencziczThese things I do remember; O I pour
My soul out for them. All the ages long
Hatred pursueth us; through… - By Karl ShapiroThe letters of the Jews as strict as flames
Or little terrible flowers lean
Stubbornly upwards through…