58.

I Found Myself Yearning

I found myself yearning
yearning without any
threshold

no threshold
at which to stop
no threshold
for peace

so I created within me
thresholds, thresholds
to stop and to see.

I inscribed within myself
stairs, stairs
to see heaven

and a ray of peace
touched me

“Miriam Barurh Halfi”

57..

Pilgrimage

We may understand our days'
to be a pilgrimage in time,
from the six days of the work
week to the experience of a
day of rest, holy time. The
generation that left Egypt and
wandered in the wilderness
never reached their destination,-
the place of God's “rest.”
but every Friday evening, we
have the opportunity to make
the journey anew—this time
with an openness that will
enable us to truly enter “the
land” and come close to the
Divine

“Unknown”

56.

Poem

Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing away.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
God alone suffices.

Teresa of Avila (Catholic tradition"

55.

"God is either extremely important or non-important..

Quote from Abraham Heschel

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54.

Finding our way

Prayer is no panacea, no substitute for action.  It is, rather, like a beam thrown from a flashlight before us into the darkness.  It is in this light that we who grope, stumble, and climb, discover where we stand, what surrounds us, and the  course which we should choose.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

53.

Jewish Survival

The secret of the survival
of Judaism in the face of
the successive challenge
of Canaanite, Babylonian,
Greek, Roman,and Arabic
civilizations is the fact that
in all these epochs the Jewish religion invested
the sancta (rituals) of the Jewish people with such
universal, ethical, and
spiritual significance that
the issue involved was felt
to be not only the saving of
the Jewish people, but the
saving of all that made life
worth living.

Mordecal M. Kaplan

-Adapted-

52. 

Psalm 48 (Last two lines)
(Note that these are just the last two lines which I think stand out.)

"that our God is the eternal God,
who will lead us past death.

(This is a prayer said on Monday, the day the Levites recited this psalm in the Temple.)

51.

Dusk

when the sun steals far away
to see where sky and earth
  embrace
in heartfelt kiss
and there pays with its life
for that great sin.

Dusk
when the first gray cloud
sets a headstone on dead day
and the sky in black shrouds
enfolds the earth,
the harp in my heart
starts to play for you

Moishe Kaufman
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