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Torah 7303a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The Rabbi took the Torah form the Aron Ha Kodesh With care the sheepskin scrolls were rolled aside This scroll not like the others had a number on the wood The Story of the scroll from Prague did hide What do those hand-paint numbers mean? What story do they tell? The Rabbi's face grew solemn and tears began to swell And he told of one dark moment back in 1939 When a synagogue was razed by Satan's pride The Nazis numbered every scroll left in the ash and dust The hands that held the torah scroll were taken in arrest And the voices and the tears that held the Torah that last day Were numbered and no longer passed that way Torahs strewn on floor of ash the soldiers took away They gave the scroll anumber: 7303a Placed in Prague for a museum as a replica of wrong But instead the living Torah lasted far beyond Death's song And where did every song that sang go past that fateful day? Their song was burned as ashes to the wind The everlasting wind blew round the world and wandered through The soul of every heart that somehow lived Well the distant deaths still cry from the ashes and the smoke The last Kaddish still ringing in death's sway And I wonder what became of the hands that last did hold The Torah 7303a Yesterday the Rabbi went to the Aron Ha Kodesh With love and care the Torah scroll is brung A day for a Bat Mitzvah, just fifty years have passed He hands the scroll from Prague to one so young The young one's name is Rachel, the Torah scroll she holds Each step around the temple whispers steps of long ago The music of the footsteps of that eternal song Sings loudly as the Word sings along. Baruch ata Adonai Elohim eloheynu, elohe Yisrael Oseh Nifla'ot L'vado Life rises frrom the ashes what death cannot contain A covenant once born can never die From Rachel unt Rachel the hope is ever new In Torah scroll and child God's voice will cry And rise now from the ashes, the Torah and the chil From Europe to a land born free and strong And listen to the voices of that timeless synagogue Lasting, everlasting is the song. [Shema sung] (c) Elizabeth Best Ph.d. All rights reserved
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