Perhaps There is Hope: A Tisha B'Av Supplement | Page 100

MY HEART IS BROKEN … MY EYES SEEK FOCUS …
Dr. Henry Shreibman
I feel in parts, not apart of …
I am one filled with hope- yet there is less. I am short on vision.
My heart is broken.
My spirit hangs, where it once soared.
___ A heart can break in two with love lost, fumbled or failed.
A heart can break in three: a part in the States, a part in Israel and a piece left for the globe.
A heart sheds slivers of hope with each loss.
Hearts seize and then restart with each family loss and shock. A heart swells with hope with each swing of the news.
A heart can take just so much.
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“ My heart is in the East but I, I am at the furthest extent of the West.”
Rabbi Yehudah haLevi
So what is a heart to do? Look toward the mountains and there find your help.
Breathe in the cleansed air of dawn.
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