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July 6, 2023God Full Of Mercy
God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead.
If God was not full of mercy,
Mercy would have been in the world,
Not just in Him.
I, who plucked flowers in the hills
And looked down into all the valleys,
I, who brought corpses down from the hills,
Can tell you that the world is empty of mercy.
I, who was King of Salt at the seashore,
Who stood without a decision at my window,
Who counted the steps of angels,
Whose heart lifted weights of anguish
In the horrible contests.
I, who use only a small part
Of the words in the dictionary.
I, who must decipher riddles
I don’t want to decipher,
Know that if not for the God-full-of-mercy
There would be mercy in the world,
Not just in Him.
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was an Israeli poet who is considered one of the most important literary figures in modern Hebrew literature. His poetry often dealt with themes of love, war, and the search for identity, and his most famous works include "Open Closed Open" and "The Diameter of the Bomb."