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Braid
Before we light the Shabbos candles, she puts my hair up into a braid: She pulls the chestnut sections tight, tugs the young strands out: Wise to the root, her fingers tend to the seed: She scrubs the...
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By Yakov Azriel The ephod of time unravels. And I, an unskilled tailor, Did not notice there are no tzitizt In the tunic of my prayers, Or how the stitches in my linen breeches Have become undone. Only...
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By Yossi Huttler If I am a lot of things tonight a bit wise, a bit wicked or perfectly simple will you still answer all of my questions if I cannot even ask will you open my mouth tell me why I’m...
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Open
For the survivors and their children My grandparents left me stillness— a quiet in the center of whorl. The moment after the train tears through. Faith: A feather settling into wing: Something...
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Judea and Identity
I Almost 2,000 years ago our forebears were uprooted from Judea. Though dispersed and scattered throughout the world, They continuously and persistently remained rooted in Judea. They cherished Judea....
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Dreidel(s)
By Yossi Huttler the distance between peh and shin spans here to there the Holy to the outside lands where and where not nun, gimel, heh a great miracle took place Yossi Huttler, who lives in Los...
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Pachim Ketanim
By Yossi Huttler after all the holy wars you’ve fought all the wounds and scars and defilement search yourself for that one incorruptible jug of oil retrieve it kindle it and find yourself illuminating...
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TuB’Shvat
TuB’Shvat/Rabbi Elazar ben Arach (Avot 2:13) By Yossi Huttler go out and discern this new year of trees the path to the sublime esrog the good heart which encompasses all to which a man should cling...
View ArticleGut Shabbos
Gut Shabbos! two words tossed off almost unconsciously Touching and arousing unused corners of the soul melting walls of individuality to join G-d’s people in subtly proclaiming the creator’s process...
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Purim with Dr. Seuss
By Naomi Wolf Queen Begs…and Bam! (Or Vashti’s Lament) I will not come before the king I will not come for anything! Would you, could you in a coach? His majesty you must approach. I would not, could...
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