[yshavurah] Re: Poem about the Havurah
- From: "Antonia Dosik" <tdosik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: david.seitz@xxxxxxxxxx, Havurah <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 18:22:04 +0000
David,
It is a wonderful poem. Really. Wonderful and it captures us very well!
Toni
Antonia Atlas Dosik
"Each moment is a place you've never been" Mark Strand
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>From: David Seitz <david.seitz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Havurah <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [yshavurah] Poem about the Havurah
>Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2002, 6:15 PM
>
>
> All,
> In my undergraduate rhetoric class at Wright State, students
> do a final first-hand research project about how rhetoric
> and persuasion operate in a social group. The project draws
> on ethnographic methods of research. Anyway, one of the
> activities I have them do is write an ethnographic poem
> about the group they are studying, based on few structural
> guidelines (the approach comes from a public school
> teacher).
> As I often do with my students, I wrote along with them.
> Since I wasn't working on a research project, though,I chose
> our Havurah. Not that this is some great literary work,
> that's not the point anyway, but I thought others might like
> to see it.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> We are the Havurim
> Questioning, Believing, Including
> We adore pondering the unanwerable questions
> Reinventing traditions
> Challenging the Torah
> Sticking to the Torah
> Tree of Life-- branches that hold us
> Roots that sustain us
> Rules of old that will not bind us
> We will not abide intolerance or blind hatred
> We fear simple answers in Israel
> Enslaving both sides
> Those lost in-between
> We hope
> Against reason
> We are community
>
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