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Prayers During High Holidays that Spoke To Me.

Sheri Ahava Cohen

KOL HANESHAMAH: Mahzor Leytamin Nora’im.

 

And you wait, await the one ting

That will infinitely increase your life;

The gigantic, the stupendous,

The awakening of stones,

Depths turned round toward you.

 

The volumes in brown and gold

Flicker dimly on the bookshelves;

And you think of lands traveled through,

Of paintings, of the garments

Of women found and lost.

 

And then all at once you know, that was it.

You rise, and there stands before you

The fear and prayer and shape

Of a vanished year.  

 

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

And Rabbi Liz asked us to look not at the letters in Torah the space around the letters.

 

I pray a siddur from my heart,

One with torn edges, and all its missing words

I see have long since vanished, flying away

And seeking a resting place. How

Shall I bring a bandage for them

When my heart’s siddur with eaten edges

Still goes naked.

 

Amir Gilboa

 

 

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