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…
Culture
Listen My Nation
byFrom שמונה קבצים א’ קס”ג (Eight Notebooks 1:163) of Rabbi Avraham Yitzḥak HaKohen Kook
Falling Fruit
byI smelted a silver platter With hands that dug through coal and flame Blistered, blackened, burned Peppered with sterling droplets of molten metal That…
If I Became London
byIf I became London, would You still love me? My towers reaching high The clock borne in my breast chiming midnight my bed made…
Union
byI live in the heavens The winds of the world carry me To far off, distant places In my ears they whisper messages Thoughts,…
Sunset
byThe sun dances a gentle lilac lending its glow to cashmere clouds the birds wind in lazy spirals and the world of this block…
Witness
byYou were young and lived a life of youth forever filled with fascination your mighty excitement at the tides of the market the call…
Cannabis Likely to have been used by Ancient Hebrews
byArchaeologists analyzing a 2,700-year-old altar were stunned to discover that the ancient Judeans likely used cannabis in their ritual practices.
Shavuot
byEach precept in our Torah helps Israel to properly reveal our inherent kedusha and behave according to our collective soul’s authentic inner nature.
Today
byToday I sat outside above the empty street of quiet Sabbath and watched the birds dance lazily to the gentle breeze and felt my…
Oxford and High Tech
by“Even so a mariner might cling at last………………….
…To the same rock on which his ship was wrecked.”
–Goethe, Torquato Tasso
Steady Lights and Burning Stars
byI walked beneath a velvet sky The twinkling stars looked down from high When from the corner of my eye I saw a light…