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Despite the despair in the opening stanza The city facing the sea may have changed Kah Ribon ends with a plea to save us
I quoted above, the same poem contin- beyond recognition, but the same waters “from the lions’ jaws,” another allusion
ues: “Rock, with You, I can rush barriers. lap gently onto the shore. to Daniel. This time the lions’ jaws are
/ To You I shall sing as long as I live.” Kah Ribon captures the effervescent sense Hamas, but their steely clamp is loosen-
This too, is still our response, hundreds of awe and incredulity at the wondrous ing. Daniel survived to tell the tale, and
of years later. With our rallying cry, Am nature of G-d’s handiwork and the pure so will we. When singing Kah Ribon, we
Yisrael Chai, with our deeply ingrained joy and inner peace that accompanies can imagine a future where the Gaza of
awareness that “every generation they that profound gratitude. In flowing Ara- Rabbi Najara returns to life, a Gaza of
rise against us to destroy us, but the Holy maic, in terminology that appears to be poetry and song.
One, Blessed be He, saves us from their borrowed from Daniel, Rabbi Najara
hands,” we too continue to sing, to “rush writes that it is “beautiful” to declare
barriers,” to do extraordinary things.
G-d’s “mighty deeds and wonders”
Back in November, Lt. Col. (Res.) Rabbi before Him, that His great and mighty
Yoel Rechel returned to the site of Naja- deeds “humble the proud and raise the
ra’s shul in Gaza and sang Kah Ribon there humble.” To the proud, it is enough to
before Shabbat. Charles Dickens once gaze out at the vast expanse of sea and
called the sea “that old image of Eter- realize that we are but a speck on the
nity that I love so much.” Watching Rabbi face of the universe. To the humble, it is
Rechel sing with the bright blue sea glis- enough to gaze out at sea to be instilled
tening behind him, it becomes easier to with a profound sense of purpose, to Odelia Glausiusz
imagine Rabbi Najara standing in the realize that we dwell in a beautiful lives in Jerusalem where she works as
same spot, gazing out at the same sea, world, and we are privileged to have been a freelance writer and content curator.
marveling at the beauty of G-d’s world. chosen to call that world home.
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