A Blessing for the New Jewish Year for Stanley and Jane

[...]let's go back and stay happily In our low-keyed time Where prophecies and visions and miracles Are fed into a computer And thrown up out of it again And recycled again.[...]let's stay in our dull Imagination-less democracy Where freedom of speech and of will Have their way And where y...

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Published inTikkun Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 44 - 45
Main Author Amichai, Yehuda
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco The Institute for Labor and Mental Health 01.07.2017
Duke University Press
Institute of Labor and Mental Health
Subjects
Activism
Current Affairs
General Interest
Poetry
Religious Studies
Rosh Hashanah
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Summary:[...]let's go back and stay happily In our low-keyed time Where prophecies and visions and miracles Are fed into a computer And thrown up out of it again And recycled again.[...]let's stay in our dull Imagination-less democracy Where freedom of speech and of will Have their way And where you have to choose Your own personal blessing.Because blessings are intrusion Into private life Like Curses Only Less Effective.
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ISSN:0887-9982
2164-0041
DOI:10.1215/08879982-4162611