Talmud Portion for Today - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Talmud Portion for Today

 

In the Talmud portion for today we read

Of the priestly appointments for stacking wood

And of other liturgical usages

As preparation for the sacrifice

 

But some must read their portion for the day

By a battle lantern’s flickering light

Deep down in a bunker among the tombs

While rockets fall upon Jerusalem

 

Thus blood still splashes against the Temple walls

Thus blood still forms the letters of the text

Celebrating Talmud - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Celebrating Talmud

How could it be otherwise?
For even as the Temple burned
Our teachers gathered
     Their thoughts
     Their notes
     And us
And made the Mishna and the Gemera
Our Temple in exile