
Torah Interpretation דברי תורה
I Wanted to be an Arab City: My 50th anniversary Bar Mitzva Speech • Deutoronomy 31:22
Creation of Man and Woman, and of Marriage • Bereisheet ב א / Genesis I, II
Choosing a path of interpretation • b’Shallach • Exodus 13-17
We offered up our smokeless praise:Acrostic hymns, in rhymed word plays,In our trademark tongue, our standard phrase:dayenu
We stained a sea of pages, linedwith how to search for what we find. Built great cathedrals of the mind.dayenu
The year of inquisition’s painColumbus sailed the sea’s blue stainWe sang upon the Spanish plain:dayenu
The fidelity of our virgin looksEach first time we re-read our books.Stone soup made by mystic cooks.dayenu
Regenerate in every ageA poet, leader, scribe or sageput ink-black words on moon-white page:dayenu
Since Weimar we’ve never had so goodin thousand oaks and forest woodin ivy leagues and hollywooddayenu
Beyond the Pale, outside the foldour outstretched reach exceeds our holdA parking spot on the streets of gold.dayenu