Lee Diamond

Lee Diamond – Mow ‘Em Down & My Two Questions

Lee Diamond – Mow ‘Em Down & My Two Questions

Mow ‘Em Down

They’re burning our fields

They’re killing our crops

Our wonderful Promised land,

our Nature, our Animals.

Why not “mow ‘em down”?

“Fight their fire with our fire.”

Kites of hate

Kites of fire

Kites of destruction

Yet hardly a reaction

Where are the proud

And Zealous Jews?

Would Pinchas have

Allowed this?

Would Akiba have

Allowed this?

And Judah the Maccabi?

Would Bar Kochba have

Tolerated this?

Ben Gurion, Dayan,

Sharon and  Barak?

The knee jerk reaction

Is called for ! NOW!

Pinchas is rewarded

For his knee jerk reaction

He Killed Zimri for acts

Against God !

Yet, He is granted the covenant

Of Peace by the Master

Of All.

But Zealotry Is fanaticism

Zealotry for God

And Uncontrolled passion

Is the antithesis

Of Peace.

Fanaticism destroys!

Masada failed us.

Bar Kochba failed us.

Akiba failed us.

Pinchas failed us.

All knee jerks fail.

Reason must prevail

Compromise must prevail

Wisdom must prevail

Dialogue must prevail.

Cunning must prevail.

Israel must prevail now

“Not by might

Not by Power

But with the spirit

Of SHALOM ———“

—The Name of Our God.

Perhaps wisdom and

Cunning are at hand?

Perhaps? If Only?

 

My Two Questions

All of us know the 4 questions

We ask them every year

And answer them again and again.

But I am always asked

Two more questions.

  1. Why did you choose

to become A Rabbi?

  1. Why did you chose

To make Aliyah.

(You May sing this to the tune

Of “Mah Nishtanah”)

One answer at a time.

One morning, as a freshman

In college I woke up and discovered who I am.

I thought until then

That I was an American only.

But  as I searched deeper

Within

I realized that my primary

Identity was

the Jew in me.

Jewish family

Jewish friends

Jewish foods

Jewish holidays

Jewish expressions

If presented with an open book

I could point to the word Jew

Without reading the page,

Instantly!

I would search the credits after

A movie for Jewish names.

Yes! absurd!

But all true and all me.

I was a Jewish mind and

Soul wrapped In 98 %

American skin. המבין ימין

Jewish through and through

Yet an “am Ha-Aretz” through and through.

The Journey of “enlightenment”

Began.

Hebrew! Torah, Tanach,

Mishna, Gemara, Rashi, commentaries

Theology

And Jewish history.

It was in Jewish history

That I met myself.

That I belonged.

That I was charged.

That I gained the power

Of being. Part of and

Electrified by.

My past suddenly overwhelmed

Me and conquered me.

And my future was determined.

“Be True to your essence”

Learn your essence

Wear it

Live it

Speak it

And most of all

Teach your passion

To other Jews .

From Alef to Taf

From Avraham Avinu

Till today

I have been present

—Waiting for Moshe

And the Torah

For 40 Days

And much more.

As I was absorbed

Into Jewish self essence

I taught my narrative

Daily for all to hear.

And I still do!

“Lilmod u Lilamed” ללמוד וללמד.

Incapable of ceasing.

Learn and teach

All my inner passion.

As A.B.  Yehoshua said

“I now live in Jewish skin”

That Is my life

And this Is my answer

To question # 1!

That’s Why A Am A Rabbi

End of answer to-question # 1

Question 2 to follow

Question Two!

Why Aliyah?

Why Israel? Why Aliyah

Why reject my father/

mother and fatherland?.

Why leave family. Friends and

Fellow American Jews?

Very hard question.

At the last lecture that I gave

In my first congregation in 1971

In Iowa city, at  congregation

Agudat Achim

In the passion of youth

In the “age of the sixties”

I declared

״The ship here

Is sinking!

American Judaism

Is doomed!

I warn all of us

To enter a life Boat

With me and my family”

“As captain of this ship

I urge you to leave the

Sinking ship.

Follow Me!”

Almost 50 years later

I regret my youthful

Passion and insensitive

Words.

I left for myself and family Only.

Captains remain aboard

And attempt to keep the ship

Afloat.

At that moment I abandoned ship.

At that moment I chose my own

Inner Jew

To the needs of the Jewish people.

From that day

I have lived the life

Of the people of Israel

From that day of Aliyah

I’ve shared In building the

Jewish State.

From that day my children

Became fully Jewish.

From that day, I ceased to

Be a Rabbi serving the diaspora

And became a teacher of

Judaism and Israel for the diaspora.

From that day I have been awarded

The privilege of being

A free Jew in my own land

Of sharing this glorious moment

In our history.

                     ברוך… שהחיינו  וקיימנו והיגענו

                                     לזמן הזה

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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