You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, You watched the stylish yachts and ships (By Martin Niemoller) Try To Praise The Mutilated WorldĪnd wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. (By Sudeep Pagedar) First They Came for the Jews ‘To die, to sleep…to sleep, perchance to dream…’ My dreams are revisions of your yearning: The breaking of ancient hearts reflected by cracks in mine. Over thousands of years, over thousands of miles. Then settle here, to mingle in my modern ears, I sit not within your walls, Jerusalem of Gold.Īncient city of grace and hope, I am far from you.Īncestors’ sobs echo through winding old city streets Water tinkles and trickles in aural sensations,īlue sky opens to forever behind and beyond, Papyrus sways tuft-like in the gentle wind,
Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin (Picture: Getty) Tisha b’Av Poem How will the Rabbis then ? The beginning of any misfortune is of greater moment – Talmud Ta’anit 29a How then are these dates to be reconciled? On the seventh the heathens entered the Temple and ate therein and desecrated it throughout the seventh and eighth and towards dusk of the ninth they set fire to it and it continued to burn the whole of that day. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same – Ronald Reaganġ6. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Five misfortunes befell our fathers… on the ninth of Av.… On the ninth of Av it was decreed that our fathers should not enter the Land, the Temple was destroyed the first and second time, Bethar was captured and the city was ploughed up – Mishnah Ta’anit 4:6ġ3. We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation – Reuven Rivlinġ4. Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? – Zechariah 7:3ġ5.
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear – Jonathan Sacksġ2.
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