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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — Acharei Mos - Kedoshim 5783

Выпуск: Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — Acharei Mos - Kedoshim 5783. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. Indeed, one reviewer described her work as “a poetic expression of the tenets of Chabad, to which the poet was linked by family ties and spiritual leanings.” Her poems, all in Hebrew and now widely translated in numerous languages, are filtered through a uniquely Chabad spiritual perspective that manages to startle readers—no matter their orientation. The Rebbe always addressed his letters, “To my cousin Shaina Zelda.” He concluded this one with a postscript: “Obviously, I hope you will let me know how you are faring, especially with respect to your finances, and I trust that you will tell me things as they are—being that we are family, and especially as only very few remain among our surviving relatives.” Appreciating her artistic achievements which no doubt derived largely from her identity with darkness, the Rebbe was nevertheless was pained by her angst, and often implored his cousin to turn her focus to the brighter side of life. It was followed by four more volumes, each of them a critical and popular success: Al Tirhak (Be Not Far, 1974), Ha-Lo Har Ha-Lo Esh (Surely a Mountain, Surely Fire, 1977), Ha-Shoni ha-Marhiv (The Spectacular Difference, 1981), and She-Nivdelu mi-Kol Merhak (Beyond All Distance, 1984). Especially poignant are the lyrics in which she calls out to her beloved across a chasm of silence to reach him in “the hidden world.” Five years after she was widowed, Zelda left Geula, which had become increasingly religious and insular, and moved to a street on the border between the Orthodox area known as Sha’arei Chesed and the religiously mixed neighborhood of Rehavia. In her introduction to The Spectacular Difference (HUC PRESS), Marcia Falk, author and translator of Zelda’s poems recalls her first visit to the author’s Jerusalem home in the 1970s: “I showed up at her doorstep in a knee-length skirt and a sleeveless blouse, a kerchief on my head. I’d never heard anyone speak quite the way she did.” Imagery and concepts from Jewish traditional and mystical sources abound in Zelda’s work, prompting readers to linger over her lyrical allusions to the infinite, the supernal, the

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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles

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25 апреля 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit