Mirror Eyes
02/02/2011 10:00:57 AM
The mirror is not neutral
A cool, silver-covered surface
reflecting me impartially.
It has its own shape,
its own concave, convex bent.
No two mirrors are alike.
Some mirrors make me look
hard and gross.
However I fix my smile, it reflects
a grimace.
However wide I set my eyes,
it appears a squinting...Read more...
Glass is Broken
02/02/2011 10:00:56 AM
How at the height of joy
Is a glass broken.
How in the midst of song
Intrudes the noise of shattered glass
A moment past the sacred vows
Open now to fragmented lives
Bride and groom embracing time beyond
With the final promise to each other
Carried beyond the four posts of the wedding canopy
Into the blemished...Read more...
Twoness
02/02/2011 09:15:59 AM
"The whole world was created for the sake of union."
To unite the divided,
To bring together the separate.
A mysterious mathematics:
Two into one
One into two.
A self-discovery.
With another to learn my interior self.
Not in solitary revelation
With the other to whom I can say thou,
With all my soul, mind and might,
I am newly revealed.Read more...
Wine, Canopy, Ring and Glass
02/02/2011 09:15:58 AM
My cup of wine poured with thine
Into one empty vessel.
Drink a new mixture,
Our wines like our lives intermingled,
Fusion without coercion,
Merger without loss,
A curious admixture,
Two into one
One into two
Union without subtraction,
Singularity multiplied
Four separate poles
Too close,...Read more...
Yet (For Malka)
02/02/2011 09:15:57 AM
They say - we were not born together
we come from different families, different schools, different associations.
You are not me
and I am not you
Yet -
You know me better than I know myself.
You complete my sentences, fill in the pauses
read between the lines
You are not me - and I am not you.
Yet when we are not...Read more...
BASED ON PSALM 77
02/02/2011 09:15:57 AM
When I cry my voice trembles with fear
When I call out it cracks with anger.
How can I greet the dawn with song
when darkness eclipses the rising sun?
To whom shall I turn
when the clouds of the present eclipse the rays of tomorrow?
Turn me around to yesterday
that I may be consoled by its memories.
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Healing Insights
02/02/2011 09:00:59 AM
I have recovered
and my heart is full of gratitude.
I have recovered
I give thanks to the
divine power as experienced in the
skill of the physician;
in the care of nurses
in the warmth of family
who held my hand in theirs.
Let me not forget those long days and nights
so that I will live out my...Read more...
Mi Shebeirach
02/02/2011 09:00:59 AM
You who blessed our ancestors
at the sea and in the desert
bless these ill friends
through us Your witnesses
Give us the wisdom to impart
to them courage and hope
Let them know that they have
in our holy community
men, women and children
who pray for the skill of the physician
who pray for their recovery
of body and spirit.Read more...
Nature Pursues its Own Course
02/02/2011 09:00:58 AM
I do not believe that sickness is divine
punishment
a malediction thrust down upon me from above
a chastisement meant to correct some
transgression
I do not believe that sickness is some
mysterious test
Strange compensation designed to build character.
Rabbinic sages observed
"olam k'minhago noheg"
nature pursues its own...Read more...
On the Miracle of Recovery
02/02/2011 09:00:57 AM
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk said
"Whoever believes in miracles is a fool;
and whoever does not believe in miracles is an atheist".
We are neither fools nor apostates
Three times daily in the midst of the Amidah prayer
we acknowledge
Rock and Shield that saves in every generation
our souls that are given in God's...Read more...
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