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Jewish Group

Richard D

(8,803 posts) Mon Apr 15, 2024, 11:15 AM Apr 15

A beautiful poem

Herewith, Stavans’s translation of Gelman’s take on a Hebrew prayer by the great poet-philosopher Judah Halevi (1075–1141):

you became my nest of love
and my love lives where you live
the enemies tormented me
let them be
let your ire be
as long as I don’t find my path to you
my bones tremble embracing a stranger
the foreigner of his own skin
let it be
as long as you don’t absolve my pain
seat me
redeem me
rescue me from myself.

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/arts-culture/2024/04/a-modern-argentinian-poets-versions-of-classical-sephardi-poems/