"Two elephants", Amrita Sher-Gil (1940)
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Call now! Will anyone answer you?
To whom among the holy beings will you turn?
Vexation kills the fool;
Passion slays the simpleton.
I myself saw a fool who had struck roots;
Impulsively, I cursed his home:
May his children be far from success;
May they be oppressed in the gate with none to deliver them;
May the hungry devour his harvest,
Carrying it off in baskets;
May the thirsty swallow their wealth.
Evil does not grow out of the soil,
Nor does mischief spring from the ground;
For man is born to [do] mischief,
Just as sparks fly upward.
But I would resort to God;
I would lay my case before God,
Who performs great deeds which cannot be fathomed,
Wondrous things without number;
Who gives rain to the earth,
And sends water over the fields;
Who raises the lowly up high,
So that the dejected are secure in victory;
Who thwarts the design of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot gain success;
Who traps the clever in their own wiles;
The plans of the crafty go awry.
By day they encounter darkness,
At noon they grope as in the night.
But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth,
From the clutches of the strong.
So there is hope for the wretched;
The mouth of wrongdoing is stopped.
See how happy is the man whom God reproves;
Do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
He injures, but He binds up;
He wounds, but His hands heal.
He will deliver you from six troubles;
In seven no harm will reach you:
In famine He will redeem you from death,
In war, from the sword.
You will be sheltered from the scourging tongue;
You will have no fear when violence comes.
You will laugh at violence and starvation,
And have no fear of wild beasts.
For you will have a pact with the rocks in the field,
And the beasts of the field will be your allies.
You will know that all is well in your tent;
When you visit your wife you will never fail.
You will see that your offspring are many,
Your descendants like the grass of the earth.
You will come to the grave in ripe old age,
As shocks of grain are taken away in their season.
See, we have inquired into this and it is so;
Hear it and accept it.
Job 5
(JPS)
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Primo Levi
"A Celebration of Primo Levi", Ann Goldstein, David Remnick, John Turturro and Robert Weil
24 de janeiro de 2016
Then Eliphaz the Temanite said in reply:
If one ventures a word with you, will it be too much?
But who can hold back his words?
See, you have encouraged many;
You have strengthened failing hands.
Your words have kept him who stumbled from falling;
You have braced knees that gave way.
But now that it overtakes you, it is too much;
It reaches you, and you are unnerved.
Is not your piety your confidence,
Your integrity your hope?
Think now, what innocent man ever perished?
Where have the upright been destroyed?
As I have seen, those who plow evil
And sow mischief reap them.
They perish by a blast from God.
Are gone at the breath of His nostrils.
The lion may roar, the cub may howl,
But the teeth of the king of beasts are broken.
The lion perishes for lack of prey,
And its whelps are scattered.
A word came to me in stealth;
My ear caught a whisper of it.
In thought-filled visions of the night,
When deep sleep falls on men,
Fear and trembling came upon me.
Causing all my bones to quake with fright.
A wind passed by me,
Making the hair of my flesh bristle.
It halted; its appearance was strange to me;
A form loomed before my eyes;
I heard a murmur, a voice,
"Can mortals be acquitted by God?
Can man be cleared by his Maker?
If He cannot trust His servants,
And casts reproach on His angels,
How much less those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose origin is dust,
Who are crushed like the moth,
Shattered between daybreak and evening,
Perishing forever, unnoticed.
Their cord is pulled up
And they die, and not with wisdom."
Job 4
(JPS)
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"Persil"
On the certificate of good standing ("Persilschein") used in the American Zone of Occupation
which indicated that the individual had not committed any war crimes
and had a certified flawless political past which entitled him or her to
employment and income - it read, " Based on the information in your
registration form, you are not affected by the law on the liberation
from Nazism and militarism dated 5 March 1946."
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16 de janeiro de 2016
Afterward, Job began to speak and cursed the day of his birth. Job spoke up and said:
Perish the day on which I was born,
And the night it was announced,
"A male has been conceived!"
May that day be darkness;
May God above have no concern for it;
May light not shine on it;
May darkness and deep gloom reclaim it;
May a pall lie over it;
May what blackens the day terrify it.
May obscurity carry off that night;
May it not be counted among the days of the year;
May it not appear in any of its months;
May that night be desolate;
May no sound of joy be heard in it;
May those who cast spells upon the day damn it,
Those prepared to disable Leviathan;
May its twilight stars remain dark;
May it hope for light and have none;
May it not see the glimmerings of the dawn -
Because it did not block my mother's womb,
And hide trouble from my eyes.
Why did I not die at birth,
Expire as I came forth from the womb?
Why were there knees to receive me,
Or breasts for me to suck?
For now would I be lying in repose, asleep and at rest,
With the world's kings and counselors who rebuild ruins for themselves,
Or with nobles who possess gold and who fill their houses with silver.
Or why was I not like a buried stillbirth,
Like babies who never saw the light?
There the wicked cease from troubling;
There rest those whose strength is spent.
Prisoners are wholly at ease;
They do not hear the taskmaster's voice.
Small and great alike are there,
And the slave is free of his master.
Why does He give light to the sufferer
And life to the bitter in spirit;
To those who wait for death but it does not come,
Who search for it more than treasure,
Who rejoice to exultation,
And are glad to reach the grave;
To the man who has lost his way,
Whom God has hedged about?
My groaning serves as my bread;
My roaring pours forth as water.
For what I feared has overtaken me;
What I dreaded has come upon me.
I had no repose, no quiet, no rest,
And trouble came.
Job 3
(JPS)
14 de janeiro de 2016
Roman Vishniac
Studying Cabala in a basement in Kazimierz, the old ghetto of Cracow
(1936)
By the light of a candle, mekubalim (cabala scholars) studied the Teachings. The ancient teaching was absorbed through a combination of intuition and ecstasy, so different from the logical discussions during study of the Talmud. This may be the only existing photograph of the ancient cabala contemplation, the spiritual approach to nearness to God.
Vida
A troop of rare golden monkeys play follow-me-leader at the Dalongtan
Golden Monkey Research Centre in Shennongjia, Hubei Province, China
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When Job's three friends heard about all these calamities that had befallen him, each came from his home - Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could not recognize him, and they broke into loud weeping: each one tore his robe and threw dust into the air onto his head. They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. None spoke a word to him for they saw how very great was his suffering.
Job 2: 11-13
(JPS)
7 de janeiro de 2016
Martin Buber
"Philosopher of Dialogue" (Part One):
"Authenticity
and Spiritual Resistance: Martin Buber and Biblical Hermeneutics", Michael Fishbane
6 de janeiro de 2016
Unto Every Person There is a Name
Unto every person there is a name
Bestowed on him by God
And given to him by his parents.
Unto every person there is a name
Accorded him by his stature and type of smile
And style of dress.
Unto every person there is a name
Conferred by the mountains
And the walls which surround him.
Unto every person there is a name
Granted him by Fortune's Wheel,
Or that which neighbors call him.
Unto every person there is a name
Assigned him by his failings
Or contributed by his yearnings.
Unto every person there is a name
Given to him by his enemies
Or by his love.
Unto every person there is a name
Derived from his celebrations
And his occupation.
Unto every person there is a name
Presented him by the seasons
And his blindness.
Unto every person there is a name
Which he receives from the sea
And is given to him by his death
Zelda
Unto every person there is a name
Bestowed on him by God
And given to him by his parents.
Unto every person there is a name
Accorded him by his stature and type of smile
And style of dress.
Unto every person there is a name
Conferred by the mountains
And the walls which surround him.
Unto every person there is a name
Granted him by Fortune's Wheel,
Or that which neighbors call him.
Unto every person there is a name
Assigned him by his failings
Or contributed by his yearnings.
Unto every person there is a name
Given to him by his enemies
Or by his love.
Unto every person there is a name
Derived from his celebrations
And his occupation.
Unto every person there is a name
Presented him by the seasons
And his blindness.
Unto every person there is a name
Which he receives from the sea
And is given to him by his death
Zelda
5 de janeiro de 2016
Leonard Freed
Purim celebration in a Synagogue in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem, Leonard Freed
At my death
I will weep for your anguish that I died.
Before my death I say,
with all tenderness I say,
that if you could weep only a little,
like the doe
I once saw shed a tear or two
and then quit the place of its weeping
and climb to a distant crag
to see the world beyond tears –
If you could—
then I too would find a great stillness
like a river becalmed between its banks
flowing going to my fate.
Avraham Halfi
(Translation: Leon Wieseltier)
4 de janeiro de 2016
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And it happened, after these things, that God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, "Abraham," and he answered, "Here I am." And He said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you."
Genesis 22:1-2
Assírios
"The Assyrian Impact on Israel and the Bible"
Aren Maeir: "Assyrians and their Influence: Back to Basis"
Kenneth Lawson Younger, Jr.: "The Assyrian impact on the West: The Assyriological Perspective"
Nili Wazana: "The Voices of the Vanquished: Reactions to Assyrian Power in the Bible"
Elnathan Weissert: "The King as Intermediary between Heaven and Earth: Maliku amelu in Assyria and Pele Yoetz in Isaiah"
Kenneth Lawson Younger, Jr.: "The Assyrian impact on the West: The Assyriological Perspective"
Nili Wazana: "The Voices of the Vanquished: Reactions to Assyrian Power in the Bible"
Elnathan Weissert: "The King as Intermediary between Heaven and Earth: Maliku amelu in Assyria and Pele Yoetz in Isaiah"
1 de janeiro de 2016
When the feeble body
is about to fall
and reveals its fear of death
to the soul
the lowly tree of routine,
devoured by dust,
suddenly sprouts green leaves.
For out of the scent of Nothingness—
the tree blossoms—
glorious, beautiful.
and in its crown—
an enchanted bird.
"Enchanted Bird", Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky
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