Seventy Faces of Torah
- Leann Shamash
- 2 days ago
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Today is a special day for me, so asking Parshat Shemini for forgiveness for not posting about on its varied topics, but instead concentrating on the number seventy.
Wishing you a sweet final days of Pesach. You will find some links for Words Have Wings posts for Parshat Shemini at the end of this post.
Chag Sameach to you.
Leann
there are seventy faces of Torah
and as many ways to interpret
as there are minds that think
and moments to wonder,
hours to believe,
and voices to explain,
with hands to show the way.
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there are seventy years to search
for wisdom
seventy years to belong,
to nurture,
to strive.
there are
seventy years to look back
upon events
with wonder,
and few regrets
and at seventy years
perhaps,
just perhaps,
the gates of wisdom open
just a little
to reveal
that which is above
and eyes open to look inward
or forward
for perhaps the key is there,
right around the bend ,
for at seventy years
perhaps it has been there
all along
like the sun and the moon and the stars
but only now do you begin to see.
there are seventy faces
and this:
From Words Have Wings on Parshat Shemini
About Elisheva, the mother of Nadav and Avihu
Pink Moon
A Song of Kashrut
Weave Me a Healing.
(not about this parsha, but related to a broken heart)
The Boy Who Danced
(This is a poem about the loss of my beautiful and much beloved nephew,
Daniel Gershkowitz, (Z"L) who was taken from his parents, his siblings and
his family when he was much too young.
Daniel passed away in 2002, at the age of 14 after developing leukemia. )
כך יש שבעים פנים בתורה
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