[HANASHIR:15356] Re:Prayer for the State of Israel

[rysaa <rysaa...>]

Shalom Meris,

I have the prayer, but do you have a fax #, since I don't have a way to put it 
into my computer at work.

Risa
> 
> From: "Meris Ruzow" <meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com>
> Date: 2003/09/22 Mon AM 11:55:48 EDT
> To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Subject: [HANASHIR:15355] Re:Prayer for the State of Israel
> 
> Friends - Is anyone able to send me the Hebrew text for "The Prayer for
> the State of Israel" which I could then just download and make into a
> wordsheet?   I don't know how to "import" that kind of stuff.  The
> opening words are, "Avinu sh'bashamayim, tzur Yisrael v'goalo."   If you
> have any idea what I'm talking about and can help, THANK YOU !
> Meris Ruzow
> meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com
>  
>  
> Meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
> shamash(dot)org] On
> Behalf Of Gordon Lustig
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 3:21 AM
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:11198] Re: Passover Suess-like excerpt
>  
> Here is an excerpt from another little Suess-like poem I wrote for my
> family years back:
> 
> The things this king did would make anyone shiver
> Like tossing each son that was born in the river
> 
> And this is quite interesting, many don't know this
> But one of those sons tossed would soon become Moses
> 
> You see, a young woman of Levite descent
> Hid her small baby son where the wide river bent
> 
> In an ark filled with bulrushes, hidden from view
> And guess who found him? Pharaoh's daughter, that's who!
> 
> And Moses' sister was sneakin' about
> And said, "Oh, a baby, can I help you out?"
> "I know where the most perfect nursemaid is at."
> It was Moses's mother. (What are the odds of that?)
> 
> And she cared for Moses until he was grown
> Thus, Moses was raised, they say, "knowing his own."
> 
> But once Moses saw the most terrible fight
> Push became shove and then smit became smite
> And the one who got smote was a poor Hebrew gent
> And they weren't great smiters (as great smiters went)
> 
> An Egyptian smote the poor Hebrew away
> And smoting is bad for you, even today
> 
> That didn't stop Moses 'cause that's all she wrote
> For the Egyptian smiter no sooner was smote!
> 
> C1999 by Gordon Lustig 
> 
> 

Risa Askin

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