Hello Robin -- 1 - The Christian students may appreciate my own reverse-engineering (via PSM - Phono-Semantic Matching) of William Carlos Williams famous nonsense poem, *The Red Wheelbarrow*. His mother was Jewish.
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. You can download this 2-page Word file it from the public folder of my Dropbox at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2033458/Hebrew/Red_Wheelbarrow_pics.docx As you can see, it's not nonsense at all, but you have to know some Hebrew to appreciate it. 2 - The *Shema* prayer is a 5-7-5 haiku in Hebrew. Using @ for aleph and 3 for aiyin ... 3 - The verses of the Passover song *Adir Hu* are in Hebrew alphabetical order, It is in every Haggadah. @adir hu Bakhur hu Gadol hu Dagul hu Hadur hu Vatik hu Zakhai hu ... etc. Every Siddur has a lot of these alphabetical-ordered poems. Here are examples from the Hebrew-English *Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book *published by The Rabbinical Assembly of America and The United Synagogue of America, 1988 printing 4 - Page 58 (Preliminary Service) Shir Hakavod (sung when the ark is opened), beginning with the 5th verse: @asaprah kvodkha vlo@ r'2itakha... B'yad n'vi2ekha b'sod 3avadekha ... Gdulas'kha ugvurasakha ... etc. 5 - Page 67 Psalm 34 http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2634.htm 6 - Page 76 Psalm 145 http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt26e5.htm 7 - Page 88 in the Shakhrit (morning) service @ail @adon 3al kol-hama3asim .. Barukh umvorakh b'fi kol-n'shamah Godlo v'tuvo malai@ 3olam Da3at utvunah sov'vim @oto ... etc. 8 - Page 184 Hymn for the 7th day of Passover The initial letter of each verse spells out the name of the author: Yehudah Halevi. 9 - Page 185 Hymn chanted before reading the Torah on the first day of Shavuot Each *pair *of verses begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order. 10 - Page 189 top Hoshanot for the first day of Sukkot L'ma3an @amitakh L'ma3an B'ritakh L'ma3an Gadlakh ... etc 11 - Page 189 bottom ... for the second day of Sukkot @even sh'tiyah Bait hab'khirah Goren @ornan ... etc. 12 - Page 192 Hoshanot for the Sabbath of Sukkot: HoSha3 na@ L'ma3ankha @elohainu hosha3 na@ ditto Bor@ainu ditto ditto Go@alanu ditto ditto Dorshanu ditto ... etc. The next 2 prayers on the same and following page are both alphabetical from aleph to taf. 13 - Pages 195 - 203 Hoshanot for intermediate days of Sukkot *All* of these are alphabetical with English translations that rhyme. 14 - Page 206 Hoshana Raba The 2nd word in every verse is in alphabetical order. 15 - Page 208 Hoshana Raba (cont.) @oMan ... Ba@ ... Gishto ... etc. 16 - Page 216 Torah procession on Simkhat Torah @elohai horukhot ... Bokhan l'vavot ... Go@ail khazak ... Dovair tz'dakot ... etc. 17 - Page 228 Psalm 145 (see item 6 above) http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt26e5.htm All the best, Izzy From: Robbin Katzin <[email protected]> To: Hasafran Listserv <[email protected]> Subject: [ha-Safran] Poetry books Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear colleagues, I received this inquiry from a librarian in a Catholic school, and don't have any recommendations for her: We are working on a joint grant proposal to do a poetry program with Muslim and Jewish schools. To go along with this, we are wanting to acquire some books on Jewish poetry as our students will be writing poetry together. Do you have some recommendations? Can anyone suggest any titles that would work for third-fourth grade that are in print? Thank you. Robbin Katzin | | Robbin KatzinSchool LibrarianHillel Torah North Suburban Day School7120 N. Laramie Ave, Skokie IL 60077847.674.6533 |www.hilleltorah.org ? ? ? ? |
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