Sunday, June 1, 2008

On Yom Yerushalayim



לבי במזרח ואנוכי בסוף מערב

My heart is in the East, but I am at the ends of the West...

5 comments:

Baila said...

I used to say that all the time. I always knew it was said by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, the author of the Kuzari. But I just learned this week that he did make it to the Holy Land only to be murdered right in front of the kotel...How sad.

Batya said...

I ought to post the pics I took yesterday.

Lion of Zion said...

there is a conservative shul in hawaii called sof maarav

BAILA:

i think that is just a legend

Lion of Zion said...

"I always knew it was said by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi"

it is a poem he wrote

SuperRaizy said...

Lion-
That's a very clever name for a shul in Hawaii.