Sukkot Ecology
“where without a roof Jews change for seven days world-views…”
Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored "Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel." He can be reached at gershonhepner@gmail.com.
Two bible stories tell of the near death of the two sons of Abraham…
Because he was religious was the explanation that Kafka tried to avoid religion…
The Aeneid does this in a dream in which Aeneas was the mythic founder…
The Torah’s law to send away the mother bird from whom you’ve taken a small chick, can’t be explained…
Speech runneth over like a cup, overflowing sometimes in a style some linguists label “feminine…”
Fundamentally our bread and wine and oil are a divinely inspired triad…
The hedgehog cannot see beyond its nose and lives contented within crooked timbers
The transformation of the Temple Herod had constructed in Jerusalem into the Roman Colosseum, motivated Jews to produce in exile a more precious gem which I will call the goluseum.