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Finding Comfort
It is extremely difficult if not utterly impossible to find any
kind of comfort in the current situation. However, a picture
sent to me this morning on Facebook may provide, what we
call in Hebrew: hatzie nechama, or half a comfort. It showed
a Jewish Israeli wearing a tallit standing in prayer next to a
Magen David vehicle, and to his right a Muslim praying on a
prayer mat.
If this notion of being in this together will endure, perhaps
there is now a better hope for peace between Arab and Jew in
my native Israel.
Rachel Kapen
West Bloomfield
letters
Better Understanding of Passover
On this Passover we, and also our neighbors this time, will
come closer to and better understand the experience of
our ancestors some 33 centuries ago sequestered in their
homes while the angel of death roams the streets outside.
Dennis L. Green
Farmington Hills
CORRECTION
In the story “103 Parks in 365 Days” (March 19, page 40), the
correct spelling of the URL is trekers.org.
Yiddish Limerick
Passover
Di shtub azay Pesachdik, di tzimern will shine
Der tish azay shain mit di glezlakh of vine.
Mir essn un trinken, the Haggadah we read
Mir zingen di zmiros, ich bin hayzerik un mid.
It’
s Pesach, mein Pesach, so please kum arayn.
Di shtub: the house
Azay Pesachdik: so Pesach ready
Di tzimern: the rooms
Der tish azay shain: the table so beautiful
Mit di glezlakh: with the little glasses of wine
Mir essn un trinken: we eat and we drink
Mir zingen di zmiros: we sing the hymns
Ich bin hayzerik un mid: I am hoarse and tired
Kum arayn: come inside.
By Rachel Kapen