Yehoshua November
By Yehoshua November
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Culture The Meditation Of Travel
To warm ourselves before a stove in a foreign province, to rise early, the wayfarer’s prayer on our tongues, to watch fish blaze through shallow streams and think of home, to shift our load from one shoulder to the next and be reminded of the faces of lovers that failed us ages ago. All these…
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Culture The Yeshiva Fades From Recollection
The yeshiva fades from recollection and in the spaces of memory where voices are stored, the rabbis of my youth chant questions and answers, as they swim through the Talmud. And when I have fallen — there is the image of the head rabbi, his disciples assimilated in a circle of dance, until he, too,…
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