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Prayer for the Interment of Sacred Writing in a Genizah, by Morah Yehudis Fishman

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My bones whisper that your pages and your inks will return to the trees and the plants from where they once came. They say that someday they will even come back to life with words never yet heard. . . .

Der Schmerz, a meditation on grief by Lise Tarlau (1907)

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Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

“Der Schmerz” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 523-525. . . .