Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers
On Being with Krista Tippett
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My Father's Prayer Shawl
Your father and his younger brother were liberated from bugenwald in 19 forty five, is that right? By american soldiers. And other than flowersfor sabbath and other beautiful gestures, my father would pray at home in the mornings. He would put on his tafiline, his leather flectories and his prayer shawl, and he would drink a glass of ato juice simultaneously and glimpse at the morning paper. I mever as a teen i said, i really like the like you're not praying. An only later, and certainly after his death, when i inherited his prayerShawl that i now put on every morning, i realized that this was
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