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Havdalah189 God of Abraham, Make us a second Beginning.190 May the sun never shine there— Light betrayed us, anyway. May the wind there not sing— Joined with the Germans, it drove Our people to the slaughter-shops.191 May a green sea not roar there— It sank the ships—those splinters With our last refugees. May mountains there not tear at the sky with their peaksThey did not block the road for the assassins To protect a tiny child. We renounce beauty. We renounce valor. We renounce the praise-song. May Einstein not leave an heir. We are excommunicated together With the divine innocent, Spinoza. Make us a world with a strip of sky, Once a year, may a star shine there And make Havdalah, and divinely interpret: This is a second Beginning, Without the world of the Germans, Without the science of blood.192 And under this strip of sky, the children will Reply: Amen and amen. 409 1945 ,11m ]"p iya D^ lyaip oy - ecu |IK nyV |is ms K yniyT Va^n px cnx xainoa X^ITX t?x i y i px D n r x 7? o^ix 410 ...

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