Collections of Thoughts and Poetry

#fromwheregoesthebreeze #thewind #sukkot #talkingtalmud #masechetsukkot In Talmud, Masechet Sukkah page 37b, there is a story about waving the lulav. It says, "In the West, Eretz Yisrael, they taught it as follows. Rabbi Ḥama bar Ukva said that Rabbi Yosei, son of Rabbi Ḥanina, said: He moves them to and fro in order to request a halt to harmful winds, storms and tempests that come from all directions; he raises and lowers them in order to halt harmful dews and rains that com

#thewind #thewindandtheleaf #roshhashannah #teshuva #windsblow #leavesfall #theearth #thetrees #borninthesouth #groveofwillows #wordshavewings This will probably be the first small story/poems about the wind as we approach Sukkot. For now though, perhaps this is a teshuvah poem, a poem about mistakes and growth and repair. Shannah tovah. May you be inscribed for a healthy year. Once there was a wind born in the south or in the north or the west. It was born into a grove of wi

#joy #sukkot #holidayofjoy #sukkah #structure #flimsystructure #holiday #jewishholidays #sleepinthesukkah #eatinthesukkah #floweredtablecloths #icanseethemoon #thewind #therain #sleepingbags #overnights #imperfections What if they gave a holiday and called it the "holiday of our joy" What if all they asked of you, a city person, a person with two left hands, to build a flimsy structure of sticks or wood, And asked you, of all people, to complete that structure with a roof of