Eli, Eli

(painting by Marc Chagall)

Eli, Eli
deke mos abandonáste?
a esta tyerra mos yevastes,
i eya no mos kiere.
kon tristesa mos kedamos-kuando eyos mos sacaron.
I agóra ambulante i abandonádos somos sin Ti!
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Eli, Eli
¿Porque nos abandonaste?
A esta tierra nos llevasteis,
Y ella no nos quiere.
Con tristeza nos quedamos-
Cuando ellos nos sacaron.
Y ahora ambulante y abandonados somos
sin Ti!
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Eli, Eli
Why have you abandoned us?
To this land you brought us.
And, she doesn’t love us.
We were saddened,
when they kicked us out.
And now we are left wandering and abandoned
without You!

La Paloma

La paloma siémpre
torná a su nido
Aunke se va leshano-
suenyá tornar.
Komo mosotros
Djdios, que sonyámus
tornár a la tyerra
ke Mos dio El.

Kuando De Espanya Salimos

Mi alma te espera
Kon amor.
Kuando salimos de Espanya-
eya mos aborreció.
Ajénos éramos
almas sin patria
y eya sin temor.
Al mar fuimos
kon lágrimas
Ke las espumas
trago. Una por
una ahí se kedaron.
Mientras mosotros
mos mudamos a las
quatro esquinas
de la tyérra komo
discho Muestro
Senyor.

Via Dolorosa

I heard a
pious woman
once sorrowfully
describe
her experience
in the Holy Land.

She wept.
She said,
As she walked
the Via Dolorosa

She could recall
the steps
a condemned man
took.

We Jews have
all been condemned
to take
painful
promenades.

bearing our cross,
We took these steps in
Sevilla, Toledo
and Lucena.

Every quiet step
a reminder of
who we are.
Jesus wept.
So have we…