Tag Archives: food for thought

Next Year In Khazaria

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Born 1852, in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus.

Chaim Weizmann
Born 1874, near Pinsk, Belarus.

Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky
Born 1880, in Odessa, Ukraine.

Joseph Trumpeldor
Born 1880, in Pyetigorsk, Russia.

Yitzhak Ben-Zivi
Born 1884, in Poltava, Ukraine.

David Remez
Born 1886, in Kopys, Belarus.

Israel Shochat
Born 1886, in Lyskovo, Belarus.

Alexander Zaid
Born 1886, in Irkutsk Oblast, Serbia.

David Ben-Gurion
Born 1886, in Plonsk, Poland.

Eliyahu Golomb
Born 1893, in Vawkavysk, Belarus.

Moshe Sharett
Born 1894, in Kherson, Ukraine.

Levi Eshkoll
Born 1895, in Kiev, Ukraine.

Golda Meir
Born 1898, in Kiev, Ukraine.

Avraham Stern
Born 1907, in Suwalki, Poland.

Menachem Begin
Born 1913, in Brest, Belarus.

Moshe Dayan
Born 1915, on a kibbutz in Palestine
Parents emigrated from Ukraine.

Yitzhak Shamir
Born 1915, in Ruzhany, Belarus.

Chaim Herzog
Born 1918, in Belfast, Ireland
Father born in Lomza, Poland
Mother born in Latvia.

Yitzhak Rabin
Born 1922, in Jerusalem, Palestine
Father from Ukraine, mother from Belarus.

Shimon Peres
Born 1923, Wiszniew, Belarus.

Ariel Sharon
Born 1928, in Palestine.
Parents emigrated from Belarus.

Benjamin Netanyahu
Born 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel
Father born in Warsaw, Poland
Mother born in Petah Tikva, Palestine
Grandparents from Belarus.

(c) Satori Publishing, 2018.

Mantra

Why should we limit our Selves by only paying homage
To the lower-class man paid to die fighting his counter self
A mindful man may show as reckless a courage
Daring to enter into the abyss of himself.

(wordplay with W. B. Yeats).

(c) Satori Publishing, 2018.

Life In Four Lines

Since the dawn of time scratching the head to ignite
Trudging daily on the treadmill to preserve the spark
The very last thought is like the switching off of a light
No-body is conscious of the worm in the dark.

(c)Satori Publishing, 2018.

Not Your Fault

Shame? Depression?
Sit alone and cry?
Lay down and die?
Your fault you were broken?

No! No! No! Know this —-
The break is not weakness
You live to fight another day
The fracture will set stronger
AT THE POINT IT WAS BROKEN
Stand up!! A complete person
God’s creation, a thing of Wonder!

(c)Satori Publishing, 2018.

Quietude

Controlled breathing, belly deep, puts the brakes on Conscious Thought
In at nose, hold, out of mouth, empty lungs, reduces the chatter to nought
Rich oxygen to a quiet mind is the creative food for thought
Silence aids victory when the big battles are fought.

(c)Satori Publishing,2018.