Community Torah Corner: Special Poem
拉比朱莉·罗斯
Congregation Shomrei Emunah
新泽西州蒙特克莱尔,
Parshat Bereshit
Parshat Bereshit
如果这是Beresheit
新的开始
以色列开战
Devastating images of murder and kidnapping
Then I would rather not begin again
If only I could turn back to before
Before the prayer for rain
Before we finished Deuteronomy
Before my heart was broken
I would turn back, and not start the Torah anew.
Twice the Torah teaches:
Humans were created in the image of God.
Once when humans were first created,[1]
And once next week after the flood[2]
After the violence of Hamas[3]
After God attempted to start over
Because the first time
God did not tell Adam and Eve
They did not know they were created b’tzelem
And they didn’t teach Cain and Abel
And our human capacity for murder
Was there from the beginning.
在这一刻
It’s hard for me to see the trees and the birds
So hard to see past human capacity for violence.
Past the Hamas that filled the world
Past the destruction of the flood
为了一个新的开始
但是第二次
洪水过后
God told them in so many words.
God told Noah and his descendants,
You were created in the image of God -
With the hope that this knowledge
会被铭记.
With the hope that his knowledge
Would end unspeakable violence.
拉比阿基瓦教授[4]:
Beloved is a person for
Every human being was created
以上帝的形象
Even more beloved is a person
谁知道呢——
What it means to be created
以上帝的形象.
There’s another origin story
涉及胸腔的
多一根肋骨
永利总站需要永利总站的胸腔
保护永利总站的心
And anyone with the capacity
To offer an extra rib to
Protect the heart of another
也是人吗
As we were intended when created
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