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First Name Basis
I’m humbled when I pray next To some of the other guys In my minyan. Some pray with intense devotion, Some with enviable fluency, Some with serene…
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Not A Brag
This might seem a brag, Any any disavowal may seem False, but it isn’t. Just a pondering of the State of common courtesy In the past few weeks, A clerk…
Jun 21
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Tool and Tyrant
as inspired by the teaching on Shavout of Cantor Melanie Fine
Jun 14
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Sighs and sounds
Years, ago, on calm spring days when I’d have an hour or two between classes, having grabbed and consumed a cheap, quick lunch from the kiosks, I’d head…
Jun 6
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May 2024
What A Lovely Day, with Dread
It is a beautiful day here, The sky clear, sun up, days Lengthening, the ocean breeze Brisk and cheerful. From the backyard, all the trees Around lush…
May 31
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What Did She Think, Our Mother?
What did she think When she first heard The first mother of man That one son the other Had slain? Did she realize, this First death, meant No more…
May 23
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What My Mother Saw -- Moscow 1962
On the occasion of what would have been her 101st birthday
May 18
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Tools
My uncle, the plumber, taught me that To change a faucet one needed To use the proper tools. Don’t take the pliers when a wrench Will do the job clean…
May 9
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April 2024
Post Seder - 5784
“Pour out Your fury on the nations that do not know You, upon the kingdoms that do not invoke Your name…. “Pour out Your wrath on them; may Your blazing…
Apr 28
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Weclome to the Seder
Nissan, 5784
Apr 21
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We Made A Deal, God and I
an older piece, in this moment personally timely.
Apr 17
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Post Purim, Pre Pesach
They say it is going To rain, tomorrow, again. They say beware the wet, Beware the rain. But now it is clear, Cute fluffy clouds slowly, Lazily, waft…
Apr 11
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