On Re'eh
Great plural blessing
rains on individuals
as each of us needs
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What is the blessing?
the blessing is if you listen
that is the blessing
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Like sand and like stars
we are each a whole and part
to shine and align
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posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 10:14 AM
1 Comments:
These haiku are nice.
I have been (foolishly, perhaps) engaging in debate on Facebook walls about the national health care bills under consideration. One rabid Texas Republican (and I do not use "rabid" lightly) keeps insisting that HE earned his money the hard way, what he earned is HIS, no way will he pay for the poor choices of others who don't have income and/or insurance, yadda yadda.
To him, I quote from your explication of the last haiku:
"...each individual must balance their own needs with their responsibility as part of the greater whole. After individual needs are met a person must apply their own gifts on a national level."
Why is this such a hard concept for so many Americans to grasp or accept? Rugged individualism is swell in movies, but in real life we need to have each other's backs when times are tough. IMHO.
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