September 21, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which began last
evening and ends on the evening of September 22. The ten days between Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) are a time when one’s repentance
may affect whether one is written into the book of life or the book of death
for the coming year.
Today’s poem is a Rosh Hashanah poem about the need to pray
for, and atone for, everyone.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Rosh Hashanah opens to the page
On which is writ, for good or ill, our fate.
Still wrestling with angels, we engage,
Harrowing our hearts, our future state.
However, "we" encompasses us all,
As though we were but droplets in a wave
Suspended on its journey to the shore,
Hard put to any single droplet save.
And so we pray not only for ourselves,
Nor only for our family, friends, or tribe:
All must be our congregation, else
How might we turn to God to turn the tide?
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/roshh2.html.
For more poems for Rosh Hashanah, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/yomkippurpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Rosh Hashanah
September 18: Righteousness Ought Not Be for One’s Self
September 19: Remember the Utility of Shame
September 20: Return Each Year to Test the Ancient Waters
September 21: Rosh Hashanah Opens to the Page
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