Tevet
byLook back one more time At the lights in the window Flickering, warming Smiling sadly To send me on my way A tear trickles…
Culture
Asara B’Tevet
byThere is an undercurrent in Jerusalem Blood stirs in the people And the people throb like blood. Through veins they whimper at the guards…
Ḥag HaBanot
byḤag HaBanot honors the heroism of our women in the struggle to free Judea from Seleucid-Greek rule.
In Those Days, At This Time (I)
byHow do we extricate Israel from Roman rule without bringing the Jewish state to ruin in the process? Can this be the next great challenge of Jewish history?
Sunrise on the Aegean
byMy breath crests over the clouds blending sky and ocean above the Hellespont Thessaly to my back emerging consummate from Thrace Jerusalem before me…
Skies of Fire
byLike thunder rumbling in the earth The land quaked and shivered Lying dormant for a time Until the dam broke And expelled the fire…
Towards the Mountains
byI call to you now I call from the straits, I’ve been sent here to tell you Your fortune awaits In the root and…
I Long for the Day
byI long for the day When hand and heart and tongue and all things between Align themselves to the tune That plays in the…
The Path to Salvation
byThe path to salvation Is paved with a thousand stones Carried by a thousand men Shaped by experience Who struggle to make the pieces…
The Ninth of Av
byI sit on a balcony in living Jerusalem, speaking to my father He explains the thought of the world and a return of light…
Mom, I’m Going In
byThat was fifteen years ago Seventeen and mad It was hot as hell On Erev Tisha b’Av he was determined Walked to Kissufim only…
Listen My Nation
byFrom שמונה קבצים א’ קס”ג (Eight Notebooks 1:163) of Rabbi Avraham Yitzḥak HaKohen Kook