PERSPECTIVES → OPEN MIC Issue 1071 · July 23, 2025

Forever and Ever     

Where a kumzitz fails, an article might work. And the added advantage to this is that the message can now spread far and wide

Forever and Ever     

A guitar would dangle deftly from my shoulders, untouched, as my arms lace sweaty shoulders on each side and, in unified song, the chorus swells, “You fall down, you get back up. You fall down, you get back up.”

Then the song would slow and, swaying side to side, eyes shut tight, I’d begin speaking.

Chevreh, heilige chevreh. A muhl it happens in life that there are shverkeiten, challenges.”

Eyes clench tighter, head shakes with vigor, voice raises slightly.

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