Part of Being Jewish Is a Choice

Music: Preludes dans le tons majeurs et mineurs:
Ancienne melodie de la synagogue.
By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan.
Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge.

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Nicholas Gordon

Part of being Jewish is a choice

As one becomes an act of preservation.

Seders start the stream of admonition,

Stories meant to bind one to the past.

On words alone the exiles had to last,

Verses reified by repetition,

Each an heirloom of a generation
Reared to give those ancient words a voice.

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