Poetry

Thank G-d Shabbos is Coming

Thank G-d Shabbos is Coming

everyone is running

no one knows shy

rushing forward, getting ahead

no one knows where

we’re all in a hurry

we’re always behind.

Thank G-d Shabbos is coming.

Reproduced with permission from Wheat, Wine & Honey: Poems by Yaffa Ganz (Jerusalem, 2015), p. 87.

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