Overheard in Los Angeles...
"When people here say: Libi BaMizrach ('My Heart is in the East'), they are really yearning to be in New York..."Having spent two days in L.A. this week, (including Grammy Sunday) , yearning for Home...
...I couldn't stop thinking of Rebbe Yehuda HaLevy's stirring & poetic prayer (even after eating at Prime Grill on Rodeo Drive):
My heart is in the East, and I am in the furthermost west--
How can I enjoy food? Can it be sweet to me?
How shall I make vows and honor bonds, while yet
Zion is held by Edom, and I by Arab chains?
Shouldn't it be easy for me to leave all the good things of Spain --
Seeing how precious it is to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.
I can't wait to get back home to Eretz Yisrael... where the real movie stars hang out.
How can I enjoy food? Can it be sweet to me?
How shall I make vows and honor bonds, while yet
Zion is held by Edom, and I by Arab chains?
Shouldn't it be easy for me to leave all the good things of Spain --
Seeing how precious it is to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.
I can't wait to get back home to Eretz Yisrael... where the real movie stars hang out.
posted by Pinchas @ 8:44 AM
1 Comments:
At February 15, 2007 at 3:48 AM ,
Talmid of the rebbe reb J said...
What does LA have to do with Arab chains, rebbe? Like 7-11, you mean?
And doesn't the Fresh Prince (HaNassi HaTari) know he's not supposed to turn his back on the koisel?
Keep on blogging the revolution, rebbe. Some day, instead of rebbe stories or artscroll books about you there are gonna just be links to these posts (and maybe this comment?).
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