Part of Being Jewish Is a Choice

Several generations of a Jewish family reading from the Haggudah at the start of the seder.

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Part of being Jewish is a choice
As one becomes an act of preservation.
Seders start the stream of admonition,
Stories meant to bind one to the past.
On words alone the exiles had to last,
Verses reified by repetition,
Each an heirloom of a generation
Reared to give those ancient words a voice.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

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