Category Archives: Jerusalem

Jerusalem And The Held Back Scream

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sicha, Continuing the Conversation

The Jerusalem Talmud recounts:  When David came to dig the foundations of the Temple he dug fifteen thousand cubits but had not reached the Deep.  Finally, he uncovered a cluster of stones and was about to lift it when one rock … Continue reading →

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Raised, Not Razed

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Sicha, Continuing the Conversation

Here in a place where a ruin wants once more to be a new house, its desire increases our own…. Everything here is busy with the work of remembering: the ruin remembers… (Click here for complete Amichai poem in Hebrew … Continue reading →

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Yerushalayim: A Pronounced Hope

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Sicha, Continuing the Conversation

The name, Jerusalem/Yerushalayim, evokes meaning beyond what the word can contain.  Since ancient times, what sounds like the dual plural ending of her name—ayim—has suggested that she is, after all, two cities. She is real estate and also unreal, a … Continue reading →

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My Blindness and Jerusalem’s Limp

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Sicha, Continuing the Conversation

I and Jerusalem are like a blind man and a cripple. She sees for me Out to the Dead Sea, out to the end of days. While I hoist her on my shoulders And walk blind in my darkness below. … Continue reading →

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