Friday, January 3, 2003

The Jew Comments

Rating: 2.7

Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
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Isaac Rosenberg
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Raymond Farrell 01 September 2015

This is a powerful poem and asks a very poignant question indeed. Moses was a Jew and was inspired to pen the Ten Commandments that all the Christian Europeans at the time sought to follow yet they would sneer at a Jewish person like Rosenberg. Why indeed.

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