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Go Go
To the Land they wanted to get back to But know that when you watch him
All those years Score baskets
And years Your cheers
But couldn’t Will be tinged with fear
Because he is young and able
Go And he loves the country
To the Land like you taught him to
And you will pinch yourself
As you eat waffles drizzled with chocolate Go
On a terrace Knowing they will see and hear things
With your children That will make them grow up too fast
And think of those thousands of years And grow cynical
When they couldn’t And believe

Go Go
And watch your children So she sees strong women
Turn into the people you always dreamed everywhere she turns
They could become And so she loves her curly hair
As they learn the language
And the empathy Go
And the resilience So they will never have to
And the pride
And the curses Go
And the arguments With faith
And the rivers And with fear
And the songs With longing
With yearning
Towards the flag
In the sun

Go
With confidence
Because he went
To the Land
He was promised
Your future.

A member of
the Mizrachi
Yael Leibowitz was a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women prior to making Aliyah in 2014. Speakers Bureau
She has taught continuing education courses at Drisha Institute for Jewish Education and served as resident scholar at the Jewish Center of
Manhattan. She is currently teaching at Matan Women’s Institute for Torah Learning, and lectures widely on topics in Jewish biblical thought. mizrachi.org/
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