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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 2004/09
From: Jackie Kovach <jl.kovach@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:58:30 -0400
This was pretty special to me.... our son, Gabe, is the shofar blower=20=
at our synagogue. He really is outstanding. One of the rabbis told him=20=
last night that when he hears G blow, it's like, for him, the way it=20
has been, should have been, ought to have been throughout the=20
centuries!
On Sep 15, 2004, at 9:15 PM, Oboeeee@-----.com wrote:
>
> SHOFAR BLOWER
>
> The shofar blower keens a melody,
> An old melody to God.
> Above him=97
> A sky without stars,
> Primordial darkness lost in darkness,
> The shofar blower keens a melody:
> Teki=92ah, Teru=92ah, Shebarim.
>
> The blackness=97a wind, a wall,
> There is no congregation,
> No quorum at all.
> The shofar blower keens a melody,
> An old melody:
> Hallelujah.
>
> Near him, an extinguished thorn,
> As he stares into even blacker darkness,
> The shofar blower keens a melody,
> An old melody,
> And waits=97
> The thorn shall begin to burn,
> A flame shall inscribe on a wall.
> Above him, a sky without stars,
> And primordial darkness,
> And deadly venom.
> But this does not interrupt,
> Does not silence the horn:
> Teki=92ah,
> Teru=92ah,
> Shebarim.
>
>
> -Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) Yiddish poet and writer
> Warsaw, Poland
>
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Jacqueline Kovach, oboe
The Amoris Consort (bass oboe)
Temple University Music Prep faculty
Community College of Philadelphia, adjunct faculty
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