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“It is not given to everyone to have his private tasks of meditation and reflection so happily coincident with the public interest that it becomes difficult to judge how far he serves merely himself and how far the public good.” Immanuel Kant

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

the parochial serves the universal

Strange savior to only kin and kine
not caring for his fellows in the least
at consanguinity, he draws the line,
reserving hospitality to beasts.
But neighbors got no warning, no reprieve
If their own gods don't specify an ark,
they got surprised the day it's time to leave
succumbing to the flood, and mud, and Dark.
Concern for strangers dawns with Avraham
A Light until the Nations' something new
confronting God with his own moral qualm
Refocuses from "species" down to "Jew".
If not a "tzaddik", certainly a sage
this new protagonist for a new age.
Posted by levinebar at 7:29 PM
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