Gershon Wolf Poet Free verse

The Last Dance

Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
  Day of Judgment, Day of Atonement
    
Weeping openly in synagogue
  Praying for our very lives
As if our hair were on fire...

Sukkoth, Festival of Tabernacles
  Celebrating the Harvest
The Spiritual and Agricultural
  Offerings brought for each
    Nation of the World

One festival left now
  No more weeping
    Only one offering
To Him, the King of Kings
  Celebrating Him and
  the Torah He gave us
  Dancing with pure Joy
    on Simchas Torah
        Hallelujah!


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Shemini Atzeres/Simchas Torah
begins at sundown this evening

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Caren Krutsinger October 13, 2020 at 8:12 PM I hope you receive all blessings and peace my friend. Gershon Wolf October 13, 2020 at 8:13 PM TYSM, Caren. Very, very nice of you. Blessings, Gershon

Linda Alice Fowler October 12, 2020 at 6:46 AM I hope your last dance was as lifting as your poem Gershon! blessings, Linda Gershon Wolf October 12, 2020 at 5:46 PM I get pleasure from watching others dance now. (My limbs won't let me). Best wishes always, Gershon

Kim Rodrigues October 10, 2020 at 5:20 AM A lovely dance! There is joy after mourning. Be blessed, sweet friend! Gershon Wolf October 11, 2020 at 6:55 PM Thank you for your wishes, Kim. Best always, Gershon

Tom Cunningham October 9, 2020 at 6:42 PM Best wishes to you Gershon on your last festival. Tom (Chag Sameach) Gershon Wolf October 11, 2020 at 6:55 PM Thanks, Tom. The holiday's just ended, and I feel refreshed. Hope you're doing well. ~ Gershon