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כֻּלָּנוּ עַם אֶחָד |
We are all one people
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עוֹלָם שֶׁל מִשְׁפַּחַת אַחַת |
A world of one family
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יֵשׁ רַק שָׂפָה אַחַת |
There is only one language
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וְאוֹתָהּ מִדְּבָרִים הַיְּלָדִים׃ |
and the children speak it.
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I wrote this kavvanah a few years ago. At that time I lived in Ithaca, NY. I was a substitute teacher in the Ithaca Central School District. There was a community event at Fall Creek Elementary school, and the way families, faculty, students, and people from the area came together inspired the poem.

“סתיו הנחל יסודי | Fall Creek Elementary: a Kavvanah for Teaching Children, by Eli Steier” is shared by the contributors with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
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