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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Jun 17, 20212 min read
The Cryptographer’s Prayer
Dedicated to a Friend. Oh Lord Eternal, our God and the God of our Forefathers, our King, who Sustaineth the Land in justice; who...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
May 25, 20212 min read
The Death of Rabbi Judah, the Prince of Israel
A Translation from the Midrash "As the Rabbi lay dying, the people of Sepphoris (-his hometown) proclaimed: "He who shall say 'the Master...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
May 12, 20211 min read
The Wait
"His father and mother said to him, “Is there no one among the daughters of your own kinsmen and among all our people, that you must go...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
May 9, 20212 min read
The Crippled Priest
A Tale of the Second Temple "Rabbi Tryphon replied: 'May I see my sons die, if I didn't see Simon, my mother's brother, who was lame in...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Mar 4, 20212 min read
American Gaunt.
I This thorny throne Who tears all purple, Whose red hot Iron Crown, hath burnt All princely brows This vast Earth, By Seas, Mounts,...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Feb 18, 20212 min read
The Demise of Bighead
"Cephalus: "... Not it may be to every man but to the good man. Not to cheat any man even unintentionally or play him false, not...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Triumph
Here lays master Heraclius, Here he lays in a soldier’s bed, Awake he lays, master Heraclius, Sleep as mistress is banished. Of a strange...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Jan 26, 20211 min read
The First American
A Belated Thanksgiving Prayer Before the first prayer was carried, From a Pilgrim's cracking lips, Before the first man was indentured To...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Jan 26, 20212 min read
Grief
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Dedicated to an Old Mentor. A ‘Neath a mighty dome of gold, Upon pillars doth it rest, The world hath seen...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Jan 25, 20211 min read
The Abandoned Shrine
The horn of France bellows unto heaven, On the broad, Parisian road, Is Carloman’s land, This is pleasure Of the Frankish folk: Two...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Dec 3, 20201 min read
The Sinners
I met him on the ramparts On the walls of sacred Salem And we ate of the flesh of the hollies Our feet dangling Between rite and...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Nov 30, 20201 min read
The Slave and the Kings
The purple-wearing slave Descended, his freeborn Servants clearing the way. Unto the sepulcher He came, of ancient kings, And there he...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Nov 30, 20201 min read
The Old Spaniel's Rebuke
Come here, Ye insolent pups Who with the roundhead Grayhounds run, I'll tell you of the Master, And of His service, While we were young....
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Nov 20, 20201 min read
The Return to Rome
For you, our Republic, We carried arms, Brother his brother slew As he met him by chance. We parted home and hearth And bid farwell To...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Nov 18, 20201 min read
The Oath at Utica
"Hail Caesar, and live another day" So we thought, in anger and dismay. "Hail Caesar, and live another day" As we had left Cato's body,...
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Rabbi Who Has No Knife
Nov 14, 20202 min read
The Great Despair
Lo! A ship! A ship! On the waters, a ship! In her bilge, are stowed, Rumors of the fleet, With her planks decrepit, And her sails all...
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