Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
SINCE 2007
Some days are still ripe, thick on the tongue and too sweet to swallow. But now are the nights that come trickling in, one breath of relief after another. The first crisp night is always in Elul, the first deep sleep under necessary blankets.
Dane Kuttler, from the as-yet-written Elul: a calendar of readying
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Composer’s note: there is a concept in Jewish thought, that in a person's life, they need to have both hishtadlus and bitachon, learning to balance the two.
Hishtadlus is personal effort, bitachon is trust.
This song is a tribute to the power and endurance it takes to do our own unique work in this lifetime.
Hishtadlus
Batya Levine
ALL
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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ALL
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
ALL
Let us bless how from the earth these bodies of wisdom were created, alive as they are, all open openings and holy holes.
Unconcealed, revealed, we face the fate of our dignity:
if wrongly opened one would be, or wrongly closed another,
we know not how we could withstand.
Broken though this flesh can be,
still we love this life while we last.
Blessed and blessing, we bow to both the healing of sleep
and the daily miraculous of awakening.
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Taste what is in your mouth,
if it is water, still taste it.
Wash out the cups of your fingers,
clean your eyes with new tears for your sister.
We are not worse revolutionaries if we remember
that the universe itself pulses like a heart;
that the blood dances within us; that joy is a power
treading with hoofs and talons on our flimsy bodies;
that water flows and fire leaps and the land gives strength
if you build on it with respect, if you dance on it with vigor,
if you put seeds in with care and give back what is left over;
that a ritual of unity makes some of what it pretends;
that every thing is a part of something else.
from Queen’s Attitude as It Bears Upon the Matter: The Three of Cups
Marge Piercy
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
Breathe
Batya Levine
Breathe breathe breathe in �Breathe breathe out
Let it go, let it go, let it go
Trust in what's coming�Trust in your knowing�It's deeper and wider and holy
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
we are told to say the following
every day for a month
in preparation for the days of awe:
you are my light my help
when I'm with you I'm not afraid
I want to live in your house
the enemies that chew my heart
the enemies that break my spine
I'm not afraid of them when I’m with you
all my life I have truly trusted you
save me from the liars
let me live in your house
Elul: psalm 27
Alicia Ostriker
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12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
And another year goes up in smoke:
crab apples, horse chestnuts, russet
pears. Shadows lengthen when
the sun goes down, a couple of notches
earlier each night. Colors shift, become
ample, supple. Summer has rowed
away from the shore. Husks, rusks,
seed pods, casings. We want to beg
the sun to stay, tug on it with a golden
rope in both of our hands. We want to delay
the bleak inevitable, want to linger in
the bright garden even as the frivolous
petals start to let go.
Equinox
Barbara Cooper
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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White butterflies, with single
black fingerpaint eyes on their wings,
dart and settle, eddy and mate
over the green tangle of vines
in Labor Day morning steam.
The year grinds into ripeness
and rot, grapes darkening,
pears yellowing, the first
Virginia creeper twining crimson,
the grasses, dry straw to burn.
Coming Up on September
Marge Piercy
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
The New Year rises, beckoning
across the umbrellas on the sand.
I begin to reconsider my life.
What is the yield of my impatience?
What is the fruit of my resolve?
ALL
The New Year is a great door
that stands across the evening and Yom
Kippur is the second door. Between them are song and silence,
stone and clay pot
to be filled from within myself.
I will find there both ripeness and rot,
what I have done and undone,
what I must let go with the waning days
and what I must take in. With the last
tomatoes, we harvest the fruit of our lives.
Coming
Up on
September
Marge
Piercy
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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The New Year is a great door and Yom Kippur is a second door. Between them
we find ripeness and rot,
what we have done and undone, what
we must let go and must take in.
With the last tomatoes, we harvest
the fruit of our lives.
ALL
Meditation
What is your harvest from this year / 5784?
With the last
tomatoes, we harvest the fruit of our lives.
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
In every instant, two gates.
One opens to fragrant paradise, one to hell.
Mostly we go through neither.
Mostly we nod to our neighbor,
lean down to pick up the paper,
go back into the house.
But the faint cries—ecstasy? horror?
Or did you think it the sound
of distant bees,
making only the thick honey of this good life?
Bees
Jane Hirshfield
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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September
Grace Paley
Then the flowers became very wild
because it was early September
and they had nothing to lose
they tossed their colors every
which way over the garden wall
splattering the lawn shoving their
wild orange red rain-disheveled faces
into my window without shame
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There is a door you must find,
and open and walk through
into the neighbor’s yard
where once you balanced, as if
on air, one foot in front of
the other, a scrawny edging and swaying
yet steady, steady on the cedar ledge
of the fence
that divided
your childhood
with warnings for girls who dared.
You must re-enter
that brazen moment, knowing
there is no tightrope you would not try,
feeling the juices rising
as if you were a tendril pushing up, up
through the summer night
in between the glitter of stars.
If You Would Walk Your Own Heart’s Path
Pesha Joyce Gertler
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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Meditation
What door do you need to open?
What risk do you need to take?
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
The wasps outside
the kitchen window
are making that
thick, unraveling sound
again, floating in
and out of the bald head
of their nest,
seeming not to move
while moving,
and it has just occurred
to me, standing,
washing the coffeepot,
watching them hang
loosely in the air-thin
wings; thick, elongated
abdomens; sad, down-
pointing antennae-
that this
that this
is the heart’s constant
project: this simple
learning;
learning
how to hold
hopelessness
and hope together;
to see on the unharmed
surface of one
the great scar
of the other; to recognize
both and to make
something of both;
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Want / Carrie Fountain
to desire everything
and nothing
at once and to desire it
all the time;
and to contain that desire
fleshly, in a body;
to wash it and rest it
and feed it; to learn
its name and from whence
it came; and to speak
to it —
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Want / Carrie Fountain
oh, most of all
to speak to it —
every day, every day,
saying to one part,
“Well, maybe this is all
you get,” while saying
to the other, “Go on,
break it open, let it go.”
to contain that desire in a body
and speak to it— oh, most of all
to speak to it —
every day, every day,
saying to one part,
“Well, maybe this is all
you get,” while saying
to the other, “Go on,
break it open, let it go.”
ALL
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
If Not
Rabbi Hillel, Adrienne Rich, Dane Kuttler
If I am not for myself
who is for me?
If I am only for myself
what am I?
If not now
then when?
If not with others
then how?
If not here
then where?
call & Response
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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this house
in danger of being torn apart
by stones of fear.
If these words can do anything
if these songs can do anything
I say bless this house
with stars.
Transfix us with love.
Creation Story
Joy Harjo
I'm not afraid of love
or its consequence of light.
It's not easy to say this
or anything when my entrails
dangle between paradise
and fear.
I am ashamed
I never had the words
to carry a friend from her death
to the stars
correctly.
Or the words to keep
my people safe
from drought
or gunshot.
The stars who were created by words
are circling over this house
formed of calcium, of blood
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Integrity unobscured by death
Is what we hope for.
But to whom should we say
Inscribe me in the Book of Life?
To whom if not each other
To whom if not our damaged children
To whom if not our piteous ancestors
To whom if not the lovely ugly forms
We have created,
The forms we wish to coax
From the clay of nonexistence –
However persistent the voice
That rasps hopeless, that claims
Your fault, your fault –
As if outside the synagogue we stood
On holier ground in a perennial garden
Jews like ourselves have just begun to plant.
from The Book of Life
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
It is I who must begin.
Once I begin, once I try—
here and now,
right where I am,
not excusing myself
by saying that things
would be easier elsewhere,
without grand speeches and
ostentatious gestures,
but all the more persistently
—to live in harmony
with the “voice of Being,” as I
understand it within myself
—as soon as I begin that,
It is I who must begin
Vaclav Havel
I suddenly discover,
to my surprise, that
I am neither the only one,
nor the first,
nor the most important one
to have set out
upon that road.
Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost.
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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Gatherings / Elliott batTzedek
Gather our strengths
and gather our failures
Gather our kin
and gather our strangers
Gather what we love
and what we fear
Gather what we have lost
and what we are afraid to lose
Find the courage to proclaim
“All we gather is sacred”
call & Response
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
And you must love The One, your God, with your whole heart, with every breath, with all you have. Take these words that I command you now to heart. Teach them intently to your children. Speak them when you sit inside your house or walk upon the road, when you lie down and when you rise. And bind them as a sign upon your hand, and keep them visible before your eyes. Inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
all
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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The self you leave behind
is only a skin you have outgrown.
Don't grieve for it.
Look to the wet, raw, unfinished
self, the one you are becoming.
The world, too, sheds its skin:
politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.
It's easy to lose this tenderly
unfolding moment. Look for it
as if it were the first green blade
after a long winter. Listen for it
as if it were the first clear tone
in a place where dawn is heralded by bells.
And if all that fails,
wash your own dishes.
Rinse them.
Stand in your kitchen at your sink.
Let cold water run between your fingers.
Feel it.
Instructions for the Journey
Pat Schneider
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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Breathing in, I take breath into myself.
Breathing out, I join the web of being.
Breathing in, I rest in the present.
Breathing out, I am part of past and future.
Breathing in, I honor the shrine of my body.
Breathing out, I honor the shrine of the cosmos.
Breathing in, Presence fills me.
Breathing out, Presence enfolds me.
Breathing in, I witness what is broken.
Breathing out, I bow to what is perfect.
Breathing in, I offer gratitude for what is.
Breathing out, I accept that all changes.
Breathing in, I pray for peace for myself.
Breathing out, I pray for peace for all beings.
Amidah / Seven Breath Meditation
Rabbi Jill Hammer/ Kohenet
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
I am still obsessed with this book, and learning something new with every chapter
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The People’s History vs The Palace History
People’s History – Exodus through The Conquering of the Land
Palace History – The Davidic Dynasty through the Destruction of the First Temple
Northern
Kingdom
Southern
Kingdom
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Rewrites Happen for a Reason
First, they were mixed and combined, but NOT unified. Contradictions Abound. Minority Voices are Included.
Second, old stories got re-ordered, or assigned to new characters, or told from new perspectives.
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
How Did These Become One Narrative?
Wright argues that Tanakh was created for a reason – to unite disparate groups into a single people with a (mythical) shared history and a shared Sacred Text, and to teach this people how to survive without a king, Army, or Nation State.
The Palace History was included, but it was subsumed into The People’s History. God rescued the people from Egypt, and helped them win many battles in the older story – No kings. But later in history there were kings, so how to explain this?
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Retroactively, The people were warned
A new Theodicy is invented, positing that Our God was the mightiest god, such that our defeats can’t be God’s fault. Therefore, defeats were OUR fault for pissing off God by not following his laws.
Some Prophetic traditions were rewritten to have always said, “See you didn’t do what God said” or “God told you kings were a bad idea and you didn’t listen.”
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
1 Samuel 8: 10 - 19
And Shemuel related all the words of YHWH
to the people who were requesting a king from him;
he said:
This will be the rule of the king who will reign as king over you:
your sons he will take away,
setting them in his chariotry and among his riders,
so that they run ahead of his chariotry,
to make them commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties,
to plow his plowing and harvest his harvest,
and to make his battle weapons and his chariot weapons;
your daughters he will take away
as ointment-mixers, as cooks, and as bakers;
your fields, your vineyards, and your olive-groves, the best ones, he will take away
and give to his servants;
your sowing-seed and your vine-fruit he will tithe
and give to his officers and to his servants;
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1 Samuel 8: 10 - 19
your servants, your maids, your best young-men, and your donkeys, he will take away,
that they may do his work;
your flock he will tithe,
and you yourselves will be slaves for him.
And you will cry out on that day
because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves,
but YHWH will not answer you on that day!
But the people refused to hearken to Shemuel’s voice; they said:
No!
Rather, let there be a king over us
so that we, we too may be like all the nations!
Let our king lead us
and go out before us
and fight battles for us!
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
Wright on 1 Samuel 8: 10 - 19
This text parses out the modus operandi of ancient monarchies, which taxed property and conscripted bodies. The problem is not that the centralized state will eventually fail to live up to its potential; no, the mere establishment of the monarchy, and the social transformation that it sets in motion, already inflicts suffering on the nation. Long before the onslaught of imperial armies, conquest and exile will begin already at home when their own kings seize their sons for their armies, their daughters for the royal household, and their lands, vineyards, and olive orchards to remunerate his administration. Private slaves will now have to work for the palace, and indeed all will be bondservants to the throne. Today the people desperately want a king “that we may be like the other nations,” but when they get what they want, they will cry out to Yahweh.
Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
So, wow, this text is so insightful, so wise about how power becomes abusive.
And wow, did it ever call out for a rewrite for our times.
הַשֹּׁאֲלִ֥ים מֵאִתּ֖וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ:
Asking of God a King
10. And Shemuel told them, “You have seen how nations have treated you, the stranger in their midst. You have witnessed how nations war and tax and slaughter and repress and how they have expelled your ancestors from their homes, generation after generation, in the name of nationalism. You yourselves have been oppressed by all of the nations of the world, nearly destroyed by aligning with Empires.”
And they said, “We must be a nation like every other nation, a people like every other people!”
11. And Shemuel told them:
“Listen, Israel: This will be your life in the nation you demand. Each generation will be sacrificed to war. Your sons and your daughters will be trained to be soldiers from the day they enter school. Your precious children will be taught to see others’ precious children as enemies. Your teens will be armed with weapons and sent out to control another people. They will witness crimes and be ordered to not talk; they will learn not to see evil, not to hear cries for justice. Their hearts and their souls will be wrapped up in violence, their spirits will bound tight in guilt.
12. Every part of your children’s futures will be built upon serving as the state’s hands; they will mount horses and be set one against another in the streets, their study of law will be turned to justify genocide, their genius will be welded into ever-more-deadly weaponry.
13. In your new nation you will arm your daughters, saying of them “Now you are Yael,” but your warring will in the end make them no more than the mother of Sisera, dreaming of her children’s violent victories while waiting for those who will never return.
הַשֹּׁאֲלִ֥ים מֵאִתּ֖וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ:
Asking of God a King
14. All your work will go to fund a government built upon the lie of an empty land, founded in expulsion and confiscation. Your libraries rich with stolen books, your tables groaning with stolen foods, your wealthy rolling in lucre from the selling of land that was never theirs to sell will hollow out your litanies of tzedek tzedek tirdof until your prayers become the senseless grunts of the starving.
15. You will remember the language of Torah but forget what it has taught. Your holiness will be judged by how you treat the stranger in your midst and you will fail and you will fail. You will steal children, telling mothers, the child is dead. You will bulldoze homes, evict people even from caves and pretend you are building a nation. You will use trees as weapons to hide war crimes and pretend you have made forests. You will build laws that leave citizens crowded in remote areas with no clean water, no roads, no schools and pretend you are a democracy. Your people will terrorize Jews from other lands, burning their neighborhoods and beating them in the streets while you pretend to be in-gathering exiles. Your soldiers and your settlers will commit murder and arson and theft and you will dance with them in celebration of their crimes.
16. And so bitter will fall your dreams of cooperation, of the great meeting of the needs of all, of being a light, shining. You, a nation now like every other, will be seduced by the swell of strength, undone by your desire to control; all your wells of good intentions will be drained by your deceit, sweet water spilled out on the ground as the poison of power pulls saltwater into aquifers that will no longer sustain you.
הַשֹּׁאֲלִ֥ים מֵאִתּ֖וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ:
Asking of God a King
17. Your sweat and your toil will be given over to the world’s wealthiest merchants of death; the sweet songs of your poets and your musicians will be only small salve for every way you are made complicit by your leaders’ debt to Empires.
18. The day will come when your government has grown rotten with corruption and you can no longer hear injustice, your hearts gone Pharoh; hardened by all you have done to become a nation like all others, you will willfully assent to destroying your own land, your own children, to satisfy the ego of your leaders. As your society collapses around you, as your people are killed in their homes and in their fields, you will cry out, Please, heal, please us, but the hearts of the world, hardened against you by your own violence, will not heed.
19. You plan to proclaim, See how we are blessed now, a nation like any other, a people like any other, our armies and our weapons, our greened desert and our shining cities! But your own sages have taught that what you call blessings are curses, are the seeds of your destruction, a destruction they have predicted again and again, each time ignored though every time correct. You will have traded your greatest treasure for a single box of bullets and now a nation like any other you too will fade and be unremembered as every new Empire lays new names over the old.
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
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Fringes: a feminist, non-zionist havurah
I have no phone receiver to connect me to the other side,
but every day I speak to my beloveds through candle flame.
Every night, I speak to them through the dark before sleep.
I speak to them in the car when I am alone.
I speak to them when I walk beneath stars,
when I walk in the woods, when I walk in the rain.
It is possible to be with someone who is gone.
It is possible to feel what cannot be seen,
to sense what cannot be heard,
to be held by what cannot be touched.
It is possible for love to grow after death.
If there is a secret language, it is, perhaps, openness.
The way air lets light move through.
The way a window invites in the scent of grass.
The way sand receives the ocean,
then, rearranged, lets it pass.
A New Kind of Conversation
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
It is possible to be with someone who is gone.
—Linda Gregg, “The Presence in Absence”
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024
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Yitgadal veyitkadash shemey raba be’alma divra hiruty veyamlih malhutey behayeyhon uvyomeyhon uvhayey dehol beyt yisra’el ba’agala uvizman kariv ve’imru amen.
Yehey shemey raba mevarah le’alam ulalmey almaya.
Yitbarah veyistabah veyitpa’ar veyitromam veyitnasey veyit-hadar veyitaleh veyit-halal shemey dekudsha berih hu le’ela min kol birhata veshirata tushbehata venehemata da’amiran be’alma ve’imru amen.
Yehey shelama raba min shemaya vehayim Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’imru amen.
Oseh shalom bimromav hu ya’aseh shalom Aleynu ve’al kol yisra’el ve’al kol yishma’el ve’al kol yoshvey tevel ve’imru amen.
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Mourner’s Kaddish / Elliott batTzedek
So often am I lost,
yet through the pall, yet through the tarnish, show me the way back,
through my betrayals, my dismay, my heart’s leak, my mind’s sway,
eyes’ broken glow, groan of the soul—which convey all that isn’t real,
for every soul to These Hands careen. And let us say, amen.
Say you will show me the way back, my Rock, my Alarm. Lead the way, Oh my Yah
And yet in shock and yet in shame and yet in awe and yet to roam and yet to stay and yet right here and yet away and yet —“Halleluyah!” my heartbeat speaks, for You live in all this murk and too in the clear and too in our wreckage.
You are the mirror of our souls, let us say: amen
Life may harm me, rob me, ream me raw, try me, even slay me
Over all You will prevail. And let us say: Amen
Say You shall loan me a tomorrow, Say You shall loan another day to all who are called Yisrael and all called Yishmael and all called We and They, and let us say, Amen
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She is a boat, she is a light
High on a hill in dark of night.
She is a wave, she is the deep.
She is the dark where angels sleep.
When all is still and peace abides
She carries me to the other side.
She carries me, she carries me,
She carries me to the other side.
And though I walk through valleys deep,
And shadows chase me in my sleep,
On rocky cliffs I stand alone;
I have no name, I have no home.
With broken wings I reach to fly;
She carries me to the other side.
She carries me, she carries me,
She carries me to the other side.
A thousand arms, a thousand eyes,
A thousand ears to hear my cries.
She is the gate, she is the door;
She leads me through and back once more.
When day has dawned and death is nigh,
She carries me to the other side.
She carries me, she carries me,
She carries me to the other side.
She is the first, she is the last,
She is the future and the past.
Mother of all, of earth and sky,
She carries me to the other side.
She carries me, she carries me
She carries me to the other side.
She carries me, she carries me,
She carries me to the other side.
Adon Olam / She Carries Me by Jennifer Berezan
12 Elul 5742 / 14 September 2024