The Promised Land Poem by Liza Sud

The Promised Land

We will be living - you and I - in Israel,
as Rabash was living with Laitman.
for a long time in its gardens we walked there
and curd turned by this time into a sour milk.

And I from now on believe in prophecies
since the one with Iosiph has come true,
and if for me it's better not to go there -
then from the Russian area I'll not move.

But Israel - it is the promised land,
as poets we will be there exactly.
and only after we correct our minds
then we will be arriving.

And then there curds will never become sour.
In sanctity the soul will not feel bad,
it will return to people like a canopy
and will take everyone back in its bight.


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Земля обетованная


Мы будем жить с тобой в Израиле,
как Лайтман жил с Рабашем.
В его садах так долго мы гуляли там,
что творог превратился в простоквашу.

И я отныне верю в предсказания,
когда одно исполнилось с Иосифом,
и если уезжать туда нельзя мне -
то я и не уйду из русской области.

Но Исраэль - земля обетованная,
и как поэты - мы в ней точно будем,
и лишь после того, как все исправимся -
в нее пребудем.

И там уже - ни творог не испортится,
но в святости душа не будет мучиться,
назад вернется к людям словно пологом,
и всех вберет наверх в свою излучину.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: land
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 02 June 2016

I read this as a highly spiritualized version of a Promised Land. The physical land of Israel is vexed because so many people claim it and refuse to listen to any other claim. They are all stubborn and self-centered. But you widened the meaning of Israel to be the fulfillment of a prophecy of inner transformation, that is, becoming a person filled with grace not greed, and love not hate.

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