Today’s your Bat-Mitzvah,
you’re twelve-years-old;
Well have you kept and shared
that heart of gold.
Like she who emblems peace,
the radiant dove,
Blessèd are you, my child,
whose gift is love.
Jerusalem
23 April 2004
Today’s your Bat-Mitzvah,
you’re twelve-years-old;
Well have you kept and shared
that heart of gold.
Like she who emblems peace,
the radiant dove,
Blessèd are you, my child,
whose gift is love.
Jerusalem
23 April 2004
How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And