Best Rosh Hashanah Poems

Happy New Year, Dear Friends!
September30, 2019

Ah, apples with honey.
Clipped or spiraled or Round Challah, 
so yummy!
And prayers for a sweet year.
Oh, such a treat.
For both eternal souls and for
human tummies.

But better your prayers to Hashem 
be filled with gratitude,
You know these fruits are His plenitude.
This...

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Buy a challah - make it round.
Cook some kasha - lightly browned.
Bake a brisket, with a mound
Of onions on the top.

Lots of vino to be downed.
Honey cakes to add a pound.
Hugs and wishes to abound 
And smiles that never stop.

Hear the shofar's plaintive sound.
Links to...

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I listen to the ancient prayers
I've heard for all my life - 
Before I was a nana
Or a mother or a wife.

I hear them only once a year
And though I know the tunes 
I haven't felt entrenched
Like I once was in many moons.

Yet still I...

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WHOSE MESSIAH: Happy Rosh Hashanah

Upon a tree, He was displayed ignominiously
Arms stretched from East to West for our Shabbat Rest
Body pulled along the North-South axis

That is the price of Love, the width of Shalom
You ask if the Creator erred in allowing the Fall
Or had He...

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The rabbi gave a sermon
Which I listened to on Zoom,
Her Jewish New Year message
Somehow piped into the room.

The theme this year was kindness,
Which seemed very apropos 
Since the world’s so full of hatred
There’s no space for love to grow.

If we all try just a little...

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The rabbi gave a sermon
Which I listened to on Zoom,
Her Jewish New Year message
Somehow piped into the room.

The theme this year was kindness,
Which seemed very apropos 
Since the world’s so full of hatred
There’s no space for love to grow.

If we all try just a little...

Continue reading...