{"id":468,"date":"2022-09-21T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2022-09-21T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:18:44","slug":"rebbe-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/rebbe-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebbe in Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"
For J.H.W.<\/em><\/p>\n Rocking his body For J.H.W. Rocking his body while he sits he’s generations of forming like water dripping onto rock. As usual we closely listen: “the source,” he says, “comes from where it’s not.” Then, in silence we’re drawn towards him. As our questions begin to form, he strokes his beard and speaks: “in the Warsaw Ghetto the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[8],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nwhile he sits
\nhe’s generations of forming
\nlike water dripping onto rock.
\nAs usual we closely listen:
\n“the source,” he says,
\n“comes from where it’s not.”
\nThen, in silence
\nwe’re drawn towards him.
\nAs our questions begin
\nto form, he strokes
\nhis beard and speaks:
\n“in the Warsaw Ghetto
\nthe holy Piacezna Rebbe said:
\nWhile every head sickens<\/em>
\nand every heart grieves,<\/em>
\nany person who looks<\/em>
\ninside himself for any<\/em>
\nkind of blemish<\/em>
\nfeels the most profound<\/em>
\njoy. His fear is pure<\/em>
\nand he tastes<\/em>
\nthe sweetest, most rapturous<\/em>
\nessence of fear.”<\/em>
\nClosing his eyes,
\nour rebbe tenses
\nhis forehead
\nas if to squeeze out
\nmore stories
\nof loving and God.
\nWe wait. No one
\ncould get through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"