About The Author and Artist

Beth "Batyah" Ginzberg is the owner, CEO and founder of "Ginzberg Creative Arts and Writing, Inc." She is a descendant of the Davidic Line of the Mashiach and is an Israelite Hebrew Priestess. Her father was a Levi Hebrew Priest. Ginzberg is an information scientist and an artist and writer. She writes her poetry in honor and memory of her father Emanuel Ginsburg and in honor of and love for her mother Jarie Vavra Granton.


Sunday, December 7, 2014

Passion in a Candle Flame

Typing wearing Tefillin, leather wrapping to strengthen my left arm and hand. My fingers move on the keyboard with security and restraint in desires, bound up in leather handcuffs to remove the evil influences but the blood in my arm is pumping hard and my muscles get firmer. I type on a piano computer keyboard in Tefillin like Houdini, but do not want to get free of these restraints: will wear Tefillin now and forever, and my left arm will grow equal to my right in strength. Nothing like having 2 right arms! It is a joy to feel the strength as my Jewish blood accumulates in this arm and stays there for eternity. I light a candle and the flame burns in my heart and becomes a bon fire like on Lag B' Omer, soon to fill up the sky with smoke from Temple offerings. It is just a small match, but O how the flame grows higher and higher and gets hotter and hotter. My strong winded breathing puts out the flame but I will light it again next Shabbat.

 

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