So I missed a few days. I'm still not entirely sure why I'm even putting entries on here. I only registered so I could comment on another blog. So I suppose I'll just post excerpts from my journal instead of trying to come with with new logs.
Originally written 8-18-05
You've got to love hormones. I've been so emotional lately. But on the up-hand side it's not the raging, angry, pissed off sort. It's the compassionate, sad, longing sort. Up-hand? Well, let's just say lesser of two evils.
I've been reading 'Every Person's Guide to Judaism' lately. They have such an amazing culture. And then I watch the news, and see what's going on over in the Gaza strip and it rips my heart out. How can you not cry over the destruction of not just individual lives, but an eons old culture. I realize that basing land possession on an ancient book may be a little out there, but people have taken land with far less 'proof'. Let's take for example the white men taking an entire continent from the Native Americans, stating 'Manifest Destiny'. No text in hand to support that movement. But I digress, I'll lament on that atrocity later.
I sit here reading articles about these people, about their own military forcibly removing them from their homes. These are a people who were enslaved by Egypt, scattered by Babylon, slaughtered in the Holocaust, brutalized in Russia, and now, less than sixty years after establishing themselves once again in their homeland, they are being slowly removed, exiled, and killed.
In their honor:
Oh Zion! We long to live within your walls.
Hear our lament!
We have wandered for too many years.
Ro’eh Yisrael! (Shepherd of Israel!)
Lead your people home.
Oh Zion! We long to feel your sun.
Hear our cries!
Our people wait to reclaim the Promise of Abraham
Tzur Yisrael! (Rock of Israel!)
Lead your people home.
Oh Zion! We yearn to walk your streets.
Hear our plea!
Will our roots ever be planted in the soils of our homeland again?
Kaddosh Yisrael! — (Holy One of Israel!)
Lead your people home.
Oh Zion! We are filled with joy.
Hear our songs!
For where our people live, there, Zion is.
Elohei Avraham, Yitzchak v'Ya'acov!(God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob!)
Your people are home.
Originally written 8-18-05
You've got to love hormones. I've been so emotional lately. But on the up-hand side it's not the raging, angry, pissed off sort. It's the compassionate, sad, longing sort. Up-hand? Well, let's just say lesser of two evils.
I've been reading 'Every Person's Guide to Judaism' lately. They have such an amazing culture. And then I watch the news, and see what's going on over in the Gaza strip and it rips my heart out. How can you not cry over the destruction of not just individual lives, but an eons old culture. I realize that basing land possession on an ancient book may be a little out there, but people have taken land with far less 'proof'. Let's take for example the white men taking an entire continent from the Native Americans, stating 'Manifest Destiny'. No text in hand to support that movement. But I digress, I'll lament on that atrocity later.
I sit here reading articles about these people, about their own military forcibly removing them from their homes. These are a people who were enslaved by Egypt, scattered by Babylon, slaughtered in the Holocaust, brutalized in Russia, and now, less than sixty years after establishing themselves once again in their homeland, they are being slowly removed, exiled, and killed.
In their honor:
Oh Zion! We long to live within your walls.
Hear our lament!
We have wandered for too many years.
Ro’eh Yisrael! (Shepherd of Israel!)
Lead your people home.
Oh Zion! We long to feel your sun.
Hear our cries!
Our people wait to reclaim the Promise of Abraham
Tzur Yisrael! (Rock of Israel!)
Lead your people home.
Oh Zion! We yearn to walk your streets.
Hear our plea!
Will our roots ever be planted in the soils of our homeland again?
Kaddosh Yisrael! — (Holy One of Israel!)
Lead your people home.
Oh Zion! We are filled with joy.
Hear our songs!
For where our people live, there, Zion is.
Elohei Avraham, Yitzchak v'Ya'acov!(God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob!)
Your people are home.
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