[Alumni Guest Post] ‘From outside Pardes’ by Aaron Voldman

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Hirsch Fishman

Tags: alumni, creative writing, Israeli culture, Jewish education, learning, music, Pardes, poems / poetry, pride, symbolism / analogy / metaphor

Aaron Voldman (Fall '12, Elul '13) is still taking classes at
Pardes, as a Dorot Fellow. He recently wrote this poem-

Over the din
Of traffic
A flute sounds
Signaling the start of class
To the melody of
"Tov lhodot Lashem:"

"It is good to praise
Hashem
To declare in the morning
his kindness
And his faithfulness
at night"

Not a bell,
A flute.
A flute invites the children
To learn
This is The Jewish way.
This is my people's way.