HeyJaredGates of Tears & Glimpses of Hope
Observations & Notes on grief, God, the unredeemed world and the persistence of hope by Dennis Gura.
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Made Things (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOver coffee in the late afternoon, Bernard, who loves museums, Said that seeing a Cezanne is like Inhaling a beautiful sunset: Mixing, breeding, blending colors In a moment of quiet rapture. That evening, in the sukkah, thus prompted I asked Kathy: What piece of art caught you, Made you look, had you examine Lead you to wander in near and far off lands? Which one kept you enraptured? Degas’ ballerina, she replied, No hesitat
Building The Booth (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI finished building my sukkah today This year, surprise, it was pretty easy. I bought a kit with all the parts Which fit easily together, quickly, no hitch; Not like the first one I built A haphazard one, itself a bit of a hazard A contraption constructed of salvaged boards From nearby building sites, with makeshift siding And palm fronds discarded by the city, Which I collected somewhat surreptitiously, I nailed it t
Erev Yom Kippur: A Last Minute Thought (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published September 20, 2026 9th Tishrei 5787 I cannot explain in depth nor in detail what Yom Kippur means or is. The day is loaded with twenty centuries of words of texts of songs of sermons of actions of memories of tears The day is burdened with years and years of sighs, cries, importunings disappointments dreams fulfilled dreams deferred dreams broken hearts broken What Yom Ki
A Crowded Yizkor (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedif the service flows and all the requirements are properly fulfilled and the kahal quiet and attentive and the ritual specialists appropriately sober, focussed centering on the folk and their God the yizkor mood ascends, descends the introduction grave but calm even a bit stoic (can Jews think stoic?) the space around me grows despite the friends in adjacent seats even more, even more quickly, c
Manuscripts (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedMy synagogue bought new machzorim — prayer books — for the high holy days. The layout is very attractive: Lots of white space, the prayers spread out, like poems, like songs, like our arms to heaven. Got me to thinking about how, long ago, we prayed. I need assume that few had a book in hand. Manuscripts were heavy, and expensive, one who prayed likely depended more on memory that sight. Which got me to thinking: what did it
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