By International Artist Phillip Ratner ratnermuseum.org
Lee Diamond – A Jewish dispute: But Not for Heaven
When will they ever learn?
The debate continues!
It’s like the debate
After the exodus
Can you believe that
Some of us wanted to return
To Egypt?
To return to Slavery ?
To “The fleshpots of mitzrayim”
The “narrow straights” of Egypt
Became their golden calf
Their pain became their new
Security
That generation worshiped the god
Of their oppression
And they Had to die off
For us to be free!
And herein lies the dispute
We, the Jew of today
Continue to glorify Egypt
Continue to glorify our
Idols
Continue to declare it
Home
We lie to ourselves
As our children marry
Their children
And our next generation
Finds itself wandering
Without Jewish direction
A rabbi and a priest
At the wedding
Lighting their candle
As they light ours
It’s America my friends
The land of opportunity
To lose ourselves
Zion is no longer the American
Jewish direction
America is the direction
Israel for too many
I’d The burden to cast aside
But Zion thrives still
It even mourns its children
Lost in a desert of tears
And disintegration
Diaspora is not a Jewish value
Diaspora is punishment
For our failure
Diaspora does not feed us
Diaspora consumes us.
It will disappear
And Israel
Will appear
As our thriving
Home
for All Jews
Welcome !
