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Seeking more background, I stumbled upon this Medieval Hebrew Poetry website. To My Land. heaven grew wings. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah,

יְהוָה, הַט-שָׁמֶיךָ וְתֵרֵד; גַּע בֶּהָרִים וְיֶעֱשָׁנוּ And that undiscovered territory, she argues, has additional implications: The notion of separateness offered by the couplets in “Pine Cones,” implying that the lovers have failed to achieve perfect unity, indicates their separation also from God. None of this was a pleasure to talk about. Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry 1948-1994.

He is indeed my god.

After migrating from Lithuania, Goldberg published 9 volumes of poetry, was one of the most popular Israeli children’s authors, and was also a translator. Page’s use of “Jah” here, he explains, is part of a “conscious effort to bring these biblical poems into more direct conversation with contemporary Africana music that articulates spiritualities of resistance…” (ibid, p.27). River images are pretty common in biblical text. Marx concludes her essay by reiterating the hope, expressed by poet Avot Yeshurun, that “Hebrew literature should renew prayer.” And she does make her point that ‘secular’ poets participate in a “vivacious religious sentiment…far richer and more bountiful than initially expected” (Encountering God, pp.196-197). The Jerusalem Commentary on Psalms, e.g., includes a category called “descriptions of the spiritual distress of the psalmist, who feels himself far away from God” (p.xxiii).
— Amichai, “Pinecones on the Tree Above”. Rachel. I do spend a lot of time with the Hebrew Bible, but, again, without any formal training. וְאָבַד,

Whatever I’ve learned is pretty haphazard. “A survivor?” he bleated, almost certain that he was. Among her major translation projects are the Song of Songs with Ariel Bloch (then husband) and, with Chana Kronfeld, Yehuda Amichai’s Open Closed Open (NY: Harcourt, 2000). The Hebrew words for “slave,” “work,” and “worship” or “service” all have the same root. Similarly, every bullet leaves pain in circles rippling outward. Jerusalem: Schocken, 2002-2004 [Shirei Yehuda Amichai]. The Writing of Yehuda Amichai: A Thematic Approach. and every vision faileth? “I buried myself in schoolwork,” he said. People have raised more money on GoFundMe than anywhere else. Having recently read Yehuda Amichai’s brilliant and funny “Conferences, Conferences: Malignant Words, Benign Speech”* – in which one conference session explores, e.g., “ceramacists on the type of potsherd Job used to scratch himself” – I found myself imagining a similar conference on Jonah.

A Day Off. and all that it produces prospers. The Deuteronomy verse, “Arami oved avi…” is another story. will wend its way toward those most in need… This piece appears in Israel’s Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew Verse (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2013), an unusual volume combining the author’s personal essay and poetry with theological discussion: At that time Moses and the Israelites

“From Avenue ‘K’ and 13th,” Yankel replied. For discussion of “Who is Arami?” and “What does it mean to be oved?” in the Deuteronomy setting and in the Passover Haggadah, see “Ki Tavo: A Path to Follow.” Here, just to explore Hebrew vocabulary a bit more, is a little background on the word ‘oved‘ (with an aleph) itself. Psalms are an odd hybrid of poetry and prayer. 1974). ), Offered with wishes for a good and sweet year!
Copyright ©2020The Forward Association, Inc.All rights reserved. My seasons are etched in my verse As a tree’s are in its rings In “Poems of the Journeys End,” Goldberg “negotiates with the living God from whom she feels alienated,” Marx tells us: “Traditional prayers are a manifestation of faith; this one is a supplication for faith to arise” (Encountering God, p. 188). Plugging along word-by-word forced me into looking carefully at the language, much more carefully than I generally do when reading my native English. They bought a home close to family and put down roots in the small town where they both grew up, attending church every Sunday and high school football games in the fall. (more on Amichai and the Hebrew Poetry group) Note: this post updated slightly 5/18/17. In Chapter XVIII of The Guide, the Rambam discusses the verb “touch” [נָגַע] and two others: The three words karab, “to come near,” naga’, “to touch,” and nagash, “to approach,” sometimes signify “contact” or “nearness in space,” sometimes the approach of man’s knowledge to an object, as if it resembled the physical approach of one body to another. for all those experiencing ripples of violence.

The site is currently seeking a new editor to work with, or take over from, Rasof — who says he discovered the topic late in life “and has since been bitten by the bug” — just in case a reader has been bitten by a similar bug or knows someone interested in a new project. מִי-הָאִישׁ הֶחָכָם וְיָבֵן אֶת-זֹאת touch [גַּע — ga’] the mountains, that they may smoke. Why is This ‘Oved’ Different from The Other Seder ‘Oved’? They had pulled up in front of the restaurant. The deepest answer is that Torah is compared to lifegiving waters. — Leah Goldberg IN Marx, pp.188-189. to this tiny land I thought sharing this BEFORE Yom Kippur afternoon, might be of some help. …Jewish blessings are frequently structured with an opening and closing formula book-ending the content. I am sure we will continue to see resonance of these medieval works in other Hebrew poets, as well as in music. Towards Myself. He pulled the car over, got out and wiped the windshield clean with a rag from the cargo area. — Jerusalem Commentary on the Psalms, p. xliii. The Writing of Yehuda Amichai: A Thematic Approach. Our study group still has four stanzas of “Pine Cones” to translate and discuss, but I do see that the last word of the poem is הפרידה [separation].

Two days later Yankel held the piece of paper with her address in his hand. This point is of considerable importance. A lecturer read the first section of a poem called “About Myself,” which I offer in my own inadequate translation here: About Myself Leah Goldberg i. and sojourned there, few in number; A highway detours in order to give two lovers some privacy in their “bit of eternity,” in the opening stanza of Yehuda Amichai’s “Pinecones in the Tree Above.” Several stanzas later, “she is the walled public garden of the city, and he, the road which moves away from her” (Abramson, p.101 — see notes below). — Goldberg, from “The Poems of the End of the Journey”

The new 100-shekel note features Israeli poet Lea Goldberg (1911-1970).

Leah Goldberg. — Deuteronomy 4:6-8 (The Guide cites 4:7), But as for me, the nearness of God [קִרְבַת אֱלֹהִים] is my good; Friedman, singer/song-writer and faculty member of the Hebrew Union College, created a musical “Mi Shebeirach” that was extremely popular in the late 20th Century and had a strong influence on how the prayer is perceived and used. I don’t think I’m the only one who was taught some unhelpful things about “real poetry,” however, so I share what I’ve found hoping it’s of use to others…. Yet the prayer emanates from the mouth of birds, not the poet’s.

It seems hard to believe, in fact, that Goldberg’s “Poems of the Journeys End” is not in active in dialogue with these themes in the psalms: And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, The unusual structure of the Amidah, he says, creates a “cascade of blessing,” growing from the first blessing outward…. It was their deepest desire as they settled into marriage and began building a life they could share with their children.


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