Four More

The have to be rights
always act like they are right
because they feel wrong.
g
Written during Karduner conceert, while thinking of a recent Therapy Doc post about people who always have to be right.
c
The candle burns on
I believe I can still fix
Yes, I need to fix
p
Written during Karduner song about how we have to believe that we can fix, It brought to mind a story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter and a shoemaker and a candle.
o
Merciful king, Please
Bring us up to Israel
Our Own Holy Land
i
I walked around Israel for 8 days this summer and must have listened to the song Ve'Ha'aleinu LeEretz Yisrael about a hundred times. It speaks to me in the deepest way, on many levels. I wrote this while Yosef Karduner played the song live at Mount Sinai Congregation in Washington Heights, New York.

Yosef Karduner
strums with his fingers, no pick;
plays with his raw soul
j
Witten early on during the concert.