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Uri Zvi Greenberg
Song
of the Great Mind
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Creation
of the Universe
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
In
a Child’s Ear I Relate
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Those
Who Live By Their Virtue Will Say
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Nation,
How Great You Are!
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
The
Legend of Yaacov Raz
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
A
Land Lost
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Robbers
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Anxiety in My Bones Today
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Homesong
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
With My G-D, The Smith
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Like a Woman
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
The
Great Sad One
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Jerusalem
Surrounded by Walls
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Decay
of the House of Israel
by Uri
Zvi Greenberg
Not
One Truth but Two
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
Brief
Biography
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Uri
Zvi Greenberg sits on the Temple Mount with liberating Israeli soldiers
One Truth and Not Two
by Uri Zvi Greenberg
(interpreted from Hebrew by Laurence Cramer)
Your Rabbis taught:
A land is bought with money
You buy the land and work it with a hoe.
And I say: A land is not bought with money
And with a hoe you also dig and bury the dead.
And I say: A land is conquered with blood.
And only when conquered with blood is hallowed to the people
With the holiness of the blood.
And only one who follows after the cannon in the field,
Thus wins the right to follow after his good plow
On this, the field that was conquered.
And only such a field gives nourishing and healthy bread
And the house which arises on its hill is truly a fortress and a temple,
Because in this field there is honorable blood.
Your Rabbis taught: The messiah will come in future generations:
And Judea will arise without fire and without blood.
It will arise with every tree, with every additional house.
And I say: If your generation will be slow
And will not grasp in its hands and forcibly mold its future
And in fire will not come with the Shield of David
And in blood will not come with its horses saddled -
The Messiah will not come even in a far off generation.
Judea will not arise.
And you will be living slaves to every foreign ruler.
Your houses will be straw for the sparks of every wicked one.
And your trees will be cut down with their ripe fruit.
And a man will react the same as a babe
To the sword of the enemy -
And only your ramblings will remain - yours...
And your statue, an eternal curse.
Your Rabbis taught: There is one truth for the nations:
Blood for blood - but it is not a truth for Jews.
And I say: There is one truth and not two.
As there is one sun and as there are not two Jerusalems.
It was written in the Law of Conquest of Moses and Joshua
Until the last of my kings and my traitors have consumed.
And there will be a day when from the river of Egypt until the Euphrates
And from the sea until the mountain passes of Moav my boys will go up
And they will call my enemies and my haters to the last battle.
And the blood will decide: Who is the only ruler here. |
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