Jewish Musings, Friday/Shabbat, March 8

[louise]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.

Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy

And for those of you who stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!

[louise]

So sorry for being late. I am in London and forgot!
Recently my synagogue offered a seminar on Poetry written in Israel since October 7. I wanted to share this one with you.

My Peace by Zelda

My peace is tied by a thread
to yours.
And the beloved holidays
and glorious seasons of the year—
with the wealth of fragrance, flowers,
fruit, leaves, and winds,
the fog and the rain,
the sudden snow
and the dew—
are suspended on a thread of longing.

I and you and the Sabbath.
I and you and our lives
in the last incarnation.
I and you
and the lie.
And the fear.
And the breaches.
I and you
and the Creator
of the heavens that have no shore.
I and you
and the riddle.
I and you
and death.

Tough words but so true how we are entertwined.
Shabbat shalom.

[gazelle18]

Lovely! Thanks, and enjoy London!

[peachymom1]

That is a moving poem, Louise, thank you for sharing it. And thanks for an interesting week. Have a great trip! Shabbat shalom to all!

[hollygail]

Wow! Thanks, Louise.

Gut shabbes / Shabbat shalom, all!