Parsha Poster #31 – Emor: Dutiful fruit Speak to the members of Israel saying: the 15th day of
Parsha Poster #31 – Emor: Dutiful fruit Speak to the members of Israel saying: the 15th day of the seventh month shall be the festival of Sukkot, seven days for God. … And you shall take on the first day a fruit from the beautiful tree, an unopened palm frond, myrtle branches, and willows from the stream. You shall rejoice before God for seven days. — Lev. 23:34, 40 Buy this poster here.Get the parsha in your email weekly. FixGod fixes the festivalslike gems in a crownGod places them definitelyand more or less permanentlyGod puts them in orderlike a woman adjusting her hairfixed like a black and white imagecoming out of a chemical bathfixed like a game whose winneris always already knownGod makes them stableconverts them into useful compoundsthese are God’s fixed timeswhich God tells us to proclaimbut we’re the umpiresain’t nothing ‘til we calls 'emRabbi Rachel Barenblat is co-chair of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal and serves as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel, a small congregation in western Massachusetts. She is the author of four book-length collections of poetry: 70 faces: Torah poems (Phoenicia Publishing, 2011), Waiting to Unfold (Phoenicia, 2013), Toward Sinai: Omer poems (Velveteen Rabbi, 2016) and Open My Lips (Ben Yehuda Press, 2016), as well as several poetry chapbooks, and blogs as the Velveteen Rabbi.I’m so grateful to feature Rabbi Barenblat’s poetry again this week. I’d also like to thank her for a wonderful post she did on this project on her site. -- source link
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