By Yehudah Halevi
all my desire is here before you, whether or not I speak of it: I'd seek your favor, for an instant,...
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- By Solomon Ibn GabirolI look for you early, my rock and my refuge, offering you worship morning and night; before your vastness...
- By Robin BeckerI’ve expanded like the swollen door in summer to fit my own dimension. Your loneliness is a letter I...
- By Adrienne RichWhat is a Jew in solitude? What would it mean not to feel lonely or afraid far from your own or those...
- By Marge PiercyThe hinge of the year the great gates opening and then slowly slowly closing on us. I always imagine...
- By Robert PinskyThey stack bright pyramids of goods and gather Mop-helves in sidewalk barrels. They keen, they boogie...
- By Maxine KuminThe roasting alive of rabbis in the ardor of the Crusades went unremarked in Europe from the Holy Roman Empire...
- By Jessica GreenbaumBecause you used to leaf through the dictionary, Casually, as someone might in a barber shop, and Devotedly...
- By AnonymousOpen the gates—the gates of the Temple,Swift to Thy sons, who Thy truths have displayed.Open the gates...
- By Kalonymos ben Moses of LuccaHis sovereignty is o’er my gathered throng; His glory is my faith within, I seek Him for atonement of...
- By AnonymousFor we are thy people, and thou art our God;We are thy children and thou our father.We are thy servants...
- By Solomon Ephraim Ben Aaron of LencziczThese things I do remember; O I pourMy soul out for them. All the ages longHatred pursueth us; through...
- By Karl ShapiroThe letters of the Jews as strict as flames Or little terrible flowers lean Stubbornly upwards through...