Book of Maccabees I: The Reign of Terror
The first chapter of a podcast series on the first Book of Maccabees. Vision Magazine · Sefer Maccabim 001: The Reign of Terror …
Book of Maccabees I: Introduction
The introduction to a podcast series on the first Book of Maccabees. Vision Magazine · Sefer Maccabim 000: Introduction For more content from VISION…
Days Are Coming
Behold, days are coming When the emperor’s countenance will darken The windows of his face will become closed off Like a pale moon obscured…
Empire
Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome One displaced me from my home. One proposed to axe my head Another burned my books instead. The fourth…
Call to Arms
You will not draw us home From the fleshpots of exile With talk of miracles, “A nation risen from the dust” What is it…
Time
Sometimes I think our lives resemble an hourglass And the Holy One pours into them – time Like water from a pipe Where it…
In Exile
Eat up, they tell me as they place before me sumptuous dishes chicken freshly plucked from the frozen section pre-sliced vegetables cut into exotic…
Not By Smoke
They tell me the stories of previous years The blackness and ashes left behind, The sheer inhumanity moves me to tears And yet –…
In Those Days, At This Time (III)
When our nation wandered in the wilderness a strange enemy drew near cloaked in Amalekite garb but they spoke the Canaanite tongue a language…
Earth, Wind & Fire
Solid, dependable, unbreakable A pillar of hard-packed earth Crunching forward like a bulldozer To work the strings of war Planting mines, firing missiles Commanding…
In Those Days, At This Time (II)
If Haran, a third of the Hebrews Has perished in an oven far from his native soil And Naḥor has forgotten himself In the…
Dark Egypt
Beyond the wilderness Of awesome, towering rocks and sheer cliffs The shifting sands turn low and level Giving way to a cruel, greedy world…