Yerusholayim: lider, balades un poemes

1948

Erts-isroel-khale-tishtukhl (z. 38)

kval: The Mendele Review

Vol. 02.015, 30 April 1998

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Erts-isroel-khale-tishtukhl

s'hot troyrik di mayrev-vant aropgekukt,

iber bayshtidl undzern, iber shmoln,

deriber shabes oyfn khale-tishtukhl,

iz gants erts-isroel geven oysgemoln.

Rokhl|s-keyver, di meores-hamachpeylo,

di melokhem, ven mame Sore|n zey bentshn;

di odlers un laybn fun beyde zaytn,

mamesh oysgezen vi lebedike mentshn.

a gantse vokh iz undzer naketer tish

a halb-badekter bloyz mit tishtukh gevezn,

zhgamzhendik dem bisn broyt – fun tish arop

dem "al naharoys" mit lipn gor gelezn.

khorev|dik di mayrev-vant aropgekukt

iber bayshtedl undzern iber shmoln,

ober vi rakheves|dik s'gantse beysamigdesh

fun khale-tishtukhl ertsisroln.

un ven shabes-farnakht shotns tunkele

hobn dos shtibl undzers getun aynhiln,

s'hot dem 'got fun Avrem' mayn frume mame

genumen zogn mit a nign a shtiln – –

yo, oyf a ferd a vaysn, an oremen,

iz take meshiekh ongekumen tsu raytn,

ober fun beyde zaytn fun tishtukhl arop,

odlers un laybn geton tun im bagleytn.

di droysndike dray likhtike shtern

iber yerusholaim zaynen geshtanen!

funem khale-tishtukhl fun gemoltn

oyf himl aroyf zaynen zey oyfgegangen.

punkt vi fraytog-tsu-nakht di tsvey melokhem,

tatn in shtub arayn hobn getun bagleytn,

ven mame tsvishn di getsundene likht,

s'tishtukhl oyf di khales getun farshpreytn.

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s'hot troyrik di mayrev-vant aropgekukt,

iber bayshtidl undzern, iber shmoln,

deriber shabes oyfn khale-tishtukhl,

iz gants erts-isroel geven oysgemoln.