The windshield wipers valiantly struggled to do their job, but they were worn and ineffective, streaking and smudging the window rather than wiping it clean. After founding the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University she lectured there until her death in 1970. Even without looking directly at her, he could sense her disquiet in the car. Jerusalem: Schocken, 2002-2004 [Shirei Yehuda Amichai]. — Jer. They bought a home close to family and put down roots in the small town where they both grew up, attending church every Sunday and high school football games in the fall. “Touch” [Hebrew: נָגַע] is a word-of-the-week, as my study partner and I plow slowly through Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989, p.101. It forces us to deal with the symbolic nature of theological and poetic language and asks that we stretch ourselves intellectually as people of faith. — Psalm 1:3, So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom. Something about her face arrested him. 1974). He is my ancestral god. And what of Amichai’s lovers? Henry Rasof, who created the site as part of his master’s thesis from Gratz College, is a poet in his own right as well. Why was he talking about his father, a sore spot if there ever was one and here he’d just met her? “How do you know Miriam the shadchan’te?” Leah asked. Oh My Land. 22. like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? 2:2, The “Pine Cones” lovers reflect the togetherness of the above metaphors — when the lovers appear like two stones, e.g., together resting at the bottom of a hill, watching seasons pass. A Day Off. Wherefore is the land (More on “oved with an ayin” in a future post). He could feel the usual machinery that went on inside him come to a half-second halt, a blink, a chink — something stopped. The latter begins, “Teach me, my God…,” and remains singular and personal throughout: Teach me, my God, to bless and to pray The Deuteronomy verse, “Arami oved avi…” is another story. Especially for one I’ve known only five minutes?” She paused. We also know that kindness has a ripple effect, I’m still at start of The Guide, and remain pretty seriously perplexed, but I am increasingly sympathetic to Maimonides’ approach and find it oddly poetic — or, perhaps, oddly “Amichai-ish.” In approach, that is, not in content.

I originally found this book while exploring various aspects of exile and life in Babylon. BACK. His father was born in Luboml, a small Polish shtetl, but at the age of two came to the United States. Vigorous debate and reasoned critique are welcome; name-calling and personal invective are not and will be deleted. In this very native and local poem she allows birds to address the ineffable with a joyful prayer that she cannot make herself. Chana Bloch, poet, translator, and teacher, died on May 19, 2017. “Questions of Faith” a substantial interview about Bloch’s experience of Judaism. May the one who blessed our ancestors, To the contrary, he takes the verse’s extreme imagery as a comment on the power of God’s “touch,” understood as comprehending a “subject which had been distant.”. Amichai’s bomb extends from 30 centimeters to the immediate range of dead and wounded, out to a solitary mourner “far across the sea,” finally encompassing “the entire world in the circle.” (Chana Bloch’s translation.). Yankel bent slightly and nodded in return. I’m perfectly willing.”, Yankel was startled, but within a few seconds, he got it. Note the letter “aleph” at the start of “…oved… [lost, perished, fugitive,…].”. It offered protection from the cold and the rain, and they could go to nearby Weiss’s, a familiar dairy haunt in Flatbush or some other such place for tea. The couple’s state of mind, their lack of connection/concern with the road, is only emphasized by poetically giving (their) agency to the highway. Similarly, every bullet leaves pain in circles rippling outward. For another exception, see Amir, “Prophecy and Halachah,” 52-53. Stay tuned. [Yehoyado Amir, “Prophecy and Halachah: Toward Non-Orthodox Religious Praxis in (Eretz) Israel. TOP. He had not a trace of an accent and was Americanized in every way — he’d gone to a well-known American yeshiva, then was drafted into the US Army, worked for the public schools — except in the manner of his ardent Zionism. חָסִיד מִן הָאָרֶץ, For Maimonides, any biblical images of God “approaching,” “nearing,” or “touching” serve to emphasize change of human cognition. Egregious commenters or repeat offenders will be banned from commenting. They had pulled up in front of the restaurant. It traumatized Ayana’s sister, N’Daja, 19, who was also present. I don’t think I’m the only one who was taught some unhelpful things about “real poetry,” however, so I share what I’ve found hoping it’s of use to others…. עַל-אַדְמַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, לֵאמֹר:

Maimonides’ non-stop stress on God’s non-corporeal nature might seem, for contemporary readers, like way too much attention on the obvious. Spielman, the father, answered the door. This jolted Yankel. Here, in the form of a “Conference Program” PDF, is the result of my musings.

The Two Towers (Book 2 of 3, The Lord of the Rings). Our study group still has four stanzas of “Pine Cones” to translate and discuss, but I do see that the last word of the poem is הפרידה [separation]. This common verb, as it happens, is central to a Yehuda Amichai piece Temple Micah’s Hebrew Poetry group discussed this past Shabbat. לְגוֹי גָּדוֹל עָצוּם וָרָב.

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