Gates of Tears & Glimpses of Hope

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May 2025

Haiku Story
Sat at a table She asks, what do you want now? Coffee comes, it’s hot Sun peeks through the clouds I watch the morning hustle Me calm, they not so…
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Dennis A Gura
A Lacuna in the Gospel
The lacuna in the story surprises, but then I cannot claim any particular Knowledge of the underlying tale, As I do not subscribe to that faith. But…
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Dennis A Gura
Thinking Of God
Lately, I’ve been thinking of God. I don’t think my five or ten daily minutes compensate for the micro-mini-milliseconds that the Ein Sof allows for me…
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Spiritual Technology
In a box, stored away, Is the three page Loan doc my folks Signed decades back to Buy one of their first Apartment buildings. I’d guess that maybe…
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A Charge
My cousin’s son called. He’s clearing out his father’s stuff.
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April 2025

Reminisce Yom HaShoah 5785
On rising anti-semitism in the United States
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Whose Story, Which Tale
Just like the rest of us, Moshe, our Teacher par excellence, Wanted to know if his time Shuffling along this small clod Was worth it all. And, our story…
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A Never Perfect Seder
I’ve not been to a perfect seder. Maybe somebody, someplace, somewhere Conducted a perfect seder each detail attended each attendee attending All sang…
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a first spring
the grass at the park perched on a bluff overlooking the bay was newly cut yesterday a deep inhale: cut grass fresh chlorophyll seasoned with sea salt…
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