Poetry

Hataras Nedarim

By Yossi Huttler

Unknownuntying the past

year’s binding

utterances and mutterings

today

I slip the knots

tethering me

to what I was

and enter a new annum

free as timelessness

Excerpted from Lakol Z’man: A Poetical Journey Through the Jewish Year

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