Collections of Thoughts and Poetry

#remember #memories #Passover #seder #passoverseder #bo #parshatBo In Chapter 12 of Shemot, in Parshat Bo, the text travels with us far into the future. Even as primary events of the Exodus have not yet occurred, we are told that this will be a holiday to forever remember the exodus from Egypt, led by the power that is God. In his book, Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Franzen Foer writes, “JEWS HAVE SIX SENSES Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing … memory. It is interesti

#remember #parshatkitavo #kitavo #messagescarvedinstone #stonememorials #messages This is one of two poems this week on Parshat Ki Tavo...Stay tuned for poem 2. Parshat Ki Tavo Once upon a time there was a people who endured. One day it came time for them to cross the river. They were told to take large stones, whitewash them, and write down the words of the Torah. Perhaps it was the ten commandments, perhaps it was all of the mitzvot, perhaps it was the entire Torah recorde

#remember #memory #whatweremember #whatweforget #cards וְזָכַרְתָּ֗ כִּ֣י עֶ֤בֶד הָיִ֙יתָ֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם Parshat Ki Teitzei is a parsha that I want to return to over and over again. Included in this Parsha is an assortment of laws (54, according to Sefer Hachinuch) some of which protect the needy and provide the justice spoken about last week in Parshat Shoftim. Toward the end of the parsha we are asked to remember that we once escaped slavery. Our collective memory of hard

#yizkor #sumofourparts #weareasumofourparts #remember #zachor #weremember #placesinourlives #piecesofourlives #memories #howweareremembered #weareremembered #inheritance #apieceofthewhole What are we If not a sum of our parts? A pile of experiences Diaries from our childhood, books we've read Arguments we've had When sitting at the kitchen table Meatloaf and sticky jello What are we If not just a multiplication of our days? From here to there and back again Home Nights upon