A Longing To Return To The Land Of Israel Poem by Yehudah HaLevi

A Longing To Return To The Land Of Israel

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My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west.
How can I find savor in food? How shall it be sweet to me?
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet
Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains?
A light thing would it seem to me
to leave all the good things of Spain -
Seeing how precious in mine eyes
to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Fiona Schwartzinoff 19 December 2013

My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west. Exactly how I feel right now. I am dying for my beloved Israel!

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