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Article: On exile: Yoder, said, and a theology of land and return.(Critical Essay)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere. As if traveling
Is the way of the clouds. We have buried our loved ones in the
Darkness of the clouds, between the roots of the trees.
And we said to our wives: go on giving birth to people like us
For hundreds of years so we can complete this journey
To the hour of a country, to a meter of the impossible.
We travel in the carriages of the psalms, sleep in the tents of the
Prophets and come out of the speech of the gypsies.
We measure space with a hoopoe's beak or sing to while away the
Distance and cleanse the light of the moon.
Your path is long so dream of seven women to bear this long path
On ...
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Article: The Exile After Chaos
The Jewish Week;
November 4, 2005 ;
700+ words
... ... This is still one more echo of the Adam and Eve theme. Again, human beings wish to displace God. Again, God's response is exile. God scatters them over the face of the earth, and God confuses their languages. This week's parashah ...
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