{"id":66856,"date":"2022-04-08T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=66856"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:18:19","slug":"off-the-pulpit-we-were-poets-and-were-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-we-were-poets-and-were-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: We Were Poets and Were Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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Judaism carries memory through words and through ritual. The voices of those who have lived before us survive in the faith they lived and shaped. We remember them by carrying a piece of their lives into a new age, like a jewel refitted in a new setting.<\/p>\n

Judaism is Janus-faced. It points toward both the past and future. The melody of lives long past contributes to our own. When a Jew sings, there is always a chorus of the ages. As with the English poet, our Judaism writes its tradition into the future. For we too were poets, and were young.<\/p>\n

Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.<\/em><\/p>\n

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