Shavua Tov - Od HaPa'am

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday and Shabbos just shuffled out. Over Shabbos I read some Zelda and gave another look at Amichai.

Yonah the prophet, whose way to G-d

filled with flight

through raging waters

will ask mercy for you

and for me

and for all who are drowning.

- Zelda

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(from For The Light Is My Delight,

The Spectacular Difference, pg. 103)

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I hold in my hand your hand

in which there is a handkerchief, in which there are tears

in which there is salt; the salt of all salts

(melech malchei hamelachim)

- Yehuda Amichai

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(From With Sad Slyness,

Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems, pg. 225)

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