Falling Fruit
I smelted a silver platter With hands that dug through coal and flame Blistered, blackened, burned Peppered with sterling droplets of molten metal That…
Union
I live in the heavens The winds of the world carry me To far off, distant places In my ears they whisper messages Thoughts,…
Steady Lights and Burning Stars
I walked beneath a velvet sky The twinkling stars looked down from high When from the corner of my eye I saw a light…
We Were Slaves in Egypt
Mere families descended there But millions did leave it, The hardships that we there withstood Did bring the Jews to nationhood When we were…
To Wipe out Amalek
When Father and Mother were walking due east As they left Egypt’s slavery behind them, The lingering shadows about them took form And the…
Flames
Each of us is a candle We stand tall and proud, like wicks We draw on the oil of our past And buried deep…
Reflections on Har HaBayit
On a rooftop Looking down Upon this scene that splits the night Mosaics blue The golden crown A plot of land that blares with…
Gaza
As I walk by the shore where my forefathers stood And look out on the sand and the sea, My blood starts to churn…
Earth and Water
Can a stream shape a mountain? Rabbi Akiva realized this When he saw the water dripping Dripping On the rock He understood the gentle…
The Last Survivor
The worst attempt in history To quench the holy fire Where just a very lucky few Slipped through the tight barbed wire We…
Now What?
The people of the book For three thousand years have faithfully recorded Our wondrous history First the prophets Their stories catalogued and inscribed in…