English

A Mikve of Your Own

The decision of what Mikve means to each woman, is no less important than the actual tevilla itself.

I wonder about us as a society. I wonder about the civic language that exists but has not yet sufficiently settled within our religious life

Revelation, for Rosenzweig, does not merely enable a person exposure to that which was hitherto concealed from him.

You advise me that we are going Wandering. I organise a demonstration in protest But go as you command.

And that’s me – your teacher, Here before you and what I demand Is to step back a little from yourself,

I am full but emptiness will still gust through me I am full but longing will drip a moment before the new mother’s retreat.

Her own indications give her A feeling.

Grasping the gates, Hunched over Fielding cries after the pain caught within her Something is opening.

I rose early tied by a cord to your wellbeing Which is unknown, To forty hidden days To the fear of gathering clues that go to waste.

If you’re going to pay city taxes At least find a see-saw, Stand in line beside the girls With ponytails and wait