Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes
Poetry Unbound
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Hasidic Jes Don't Say God's Name
In November, two a m and the rabbinical students stand in their bathrobes at the edge of the yesheva parking lot. The poem is playfully highlighting the fact that you can't separate soul and body. Hasidic jes don't say god's name - which implies there is so much that is unknowable when we speak about him. In his own distress, he raised an alarm in public because he didn't know how to raise it in himself.
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