I'm in love with that opening line and specifically the phrasing of it being the end for "us both/אונדז ביידן" It plays to that intimacy you're describing and I'm obsessed with the ways you can read that implication. The existence of God here tied directly to the existence of the individual reminds me of the idea that the universe is created with every birth and destroyed with every death. Was this written towards the end of Ravitch's life?
Yeah I also love that opening, and really love what you say here about it. It reminds me as well of the Glatstein line (I'm paraphrasing from memory here, so probably butchering it) that "without Jews there will be no Jewish God."
As far as I can tell, this poem was first published in Argentina in the mid 1940s, so presumably written when Ravitch was in middle age.
I'm in love with that opening line and specifically the phrasing of it being the end for "us both/אונדז ביידן" It plays to that intimacy you're describing and I'm obsessed with the ways you can read that implication. The existence of God here tied directly to the existence of the individual reminds me of the idea that the universe is created with every birth and destroyed with every death. Was this written towards the end of Ravitch's life?
Yeah I also love that opening, and really love what you say here about it. It reminds me as well of the Glatstein line (I'm paraphrasing from memory here, so probably butchering it) that "without Jews there will be no Jewish God."
As far as I can tell, this poem was first published in Argentina in the mid 1940s, so presumably written when Ravitch was in middle age.