Yossi Huttler
By Yossi Huttler
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The Schmooze POEM: (how to sleep on) Le’il Tisha B’Av
a pillow less or pillow-less a stone mai’avenei hamakom head rest for one’s temples can you really sleep like every other night of the year
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The Schmooze Poem: ‘Sefirah 5704’
between Pesach and Shavuos in the Greater Hungary spring of 1944 did Jews count the weeks in ghettos the days in cattle cars without food or toilets the hours, minutes, seconds churning past burgeoning fields of new grain until they reached their ultimate destination?
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The Schmooze Poem for 9/11
(for 9/11 loved ones) the in(di)visible where you were once the niggun the tefilah of my life that instant transformed you from musical notes and written words to the spaces in between where you can only be heard and read by those who know how to listen and look for you
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Culture Poetry
Goral bound for altar or cliff I’m at the mercy of You and Your lots Kapparos after swinging the briefly orbiting object stops to be eaten or spent realize that things don’t always revolve around you and resolve the universes between you and Him — Yossi Huttler Yossi Huttler is an assistant district attorney in…
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Culture Vision
some intoxicant I think I see more clearly: myrtle pure myrrh fruit of a forbidden tree a k/King ingredients of a miracle hidden in plain sight
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News Tu B’Shvat
besieged is man a tree of the field entreating for a future mehudar heart an esrog graced with life’s ridges and troughs on this full moon new year Tu B’Shvat marks the New Year of the Trees. It is one of the four New Years mentioned in the Mishnah (Rosh HaShana 1:1). In Hasidic tradition,…
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News Holiday Poem: last turn
without a leg to stand on I’ve got to keep spinning just to remain upright keeping you in suspense which side of mine will He show you — nun, gimmel, hei, shin — as the nine flames illuminating me slowly dim until then you can only guess your fortune The eighth and final day of…
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News A Holiday Poem
23 Elul 5761 (September 11, 2001) accompanying the rumble of burning jet fuel and fatiguing metal echoes in skyscraper ravines first responders sirens wailing from all directions apocalyptic cacophony earlier that morning shofrot blaring from the four corners of the City annual heralds of the coming Judgment Day (It is customary to blow the shofar…
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