“To start love like this: with a cannon shot
like Ramadan.
That’s a religion! Or with the blowing of a ram’s horn,
as at the High Holidays, to exorcise sins.
That’s a religion! That’s a love!”

As we enter the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, host Marcela Sulak reads several of Yehuda Amichai’s poems about the themes of the High Holidays: Judgement, memory, and, of course, the blowing of the shofar or ram’s horn.

Text:
Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems.  Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. The Sheep Meadow Press, 1986.
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. The University of California Press, 1996.

Music:
Adonai BeKol Shofar Nosach Tripoli
Rav Moshe Levi – Tikiat Shofar Nosach Teyman
Ilanit – LeOrech HaShdera SheEin Ba Ish
Shai Tsabari – Lavi Oti

Producer: Laragh Widdess
Technical producer: Alex Benish