My heart asked the evening
Tech Tribe Dispatch #219
💡 Think:
When the Children of Israel stood between the desert and the sea, Moses called out G-d.
Yet G-d said to him, “Why do you cry out to Me?”
Why do you cry out to Me…
For Moses was standing and praying.
The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him, “This is no time to pray at length, when Israel is in distress.”1
During a week of unfolding horror in the Holy Land, this Shabbat is a time to find inner reserves of solace, community and hope… and a chance to take positive action - especially the beautify mitzvah of light Shabbat candles.
A Sabbath Candle
by Zelda2
My heart asked the evening,
my deep and compassionate companion:
How can fire
sprout golden wings
and embark on a magical flight.
What is its secret?
A lonely flower replied to the heart:
Love is the root of fire.
The sea breeze
answered my thoughts:
The lily of all freedom in the universe,
this is the fire of wondrous light.
My blood hearkens-- and weeps bitterly.
Woe, a flame-- even an auto-da-fe.
It was also said--
fire is a wondrous mockery of dust.
Is it proper for a mortal woman,
soft of heart,
to roam and wander
in the garden of fire.
How dare she
in the smoke of waste conjure
the ember of peace,
an ember with which Sarah Bat Tovim would light
a Sabbath candle in the gloom of pain.
Between the walls of nightmare
it would bloom, burning slowly
in the crumbling house, in the pit.
Facing it, the woman of sorrowful depths
shut her eyes,
to worry, to mourning, to shame, to the mundane.
The candle's sparks are palaces,
and in the midst of the palaces
mothers sing to the heavens
to endless generations.
And she wanders in their midst
toward God, with a barefoot baby
and with the murdered.
Hurrah!
The soft of heart comes in dance
in the golden Holy of Holies, inside a spark.
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Zelda Schneersohn-Mishkovsky, better known as Zelda (1914-1984), was an Israeli poet. Read other poems.