Seeing Thunder
byA jolting crash, deep and resonant resounding tone spiraling and tracing like a rake through jeweled sand swirling around the temples finding home in…
A jolting crash, deep and resonant resounding tone spiraling and tracing like a rake through jeweled sand swirling around the temples finding home in…
I’m grateful that you brought me out of Egypt, But each generation has its own Egypt From which we must extract ourselves- You give…
Listen to Her, for She is always speaking Straining against these lines drawn and quartered tattooed on aging maps Her’s is not the type…
I have been filled with longing For golden stone and cobbled streets For prayer and dance by the Holy of Holies I have been…
Rabbi Shimon bar-Yoḥai refused to accept Roman dominion over Judea. As a fugitive from the empire, he hid out in a cave where the legendary Eliyahu taught him the Torah’s deepest secrets.
As the heart yearns for the land As the soul aches for brooks of water I long for you For your vivid colors and…
Everything feels quiet now The air hugs my skin hair not quite raised, but not quite static seaweed drifts in the current catching sunbeams…
This Palestinian Leḥi agent is perhaps best remembered for assisting Geula Cohen’s escape from the Jerusalem prison hospital in 1947.
one thing I ask this only do I seek to dwell in his house his left hand under my head as we lie in…
I sat across from a carved wooden chair Blanketed with rich fuchsia and ornate golden leaves woven with grandeur and royalty I blinked and…
So impressed with the behavior of the two Eliyahus during their trial, University of Cairo student organizers launched demonstrations calling for the Jewish assassins to be pardoned.
A powerful poem from Leḥi fighter Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (English translation to follow the original Hebrew)