,איך -- דיין שוועסטער,
I — your sister,
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Page 444. Continuation of 'Yontev': speaker becomes 'shvester... mame... kholem' (sister, mother, dream) — 'alts tsuzamen' (all together), merging identities. Don't miss this 'yontev' (holiday). 'Zeltene minutn' (rare minutes) — 'meser heybt on blutn' (knife begins to bleed). 'Neenter, neenter. Shoyn. Ariber' (Closer, closer. Now. Over) — ritual cutting/death imagery. 'Dek mikh iber' (cover me). Now good, 'nokh beser' (still better). Lullaby to holiday and knife: 'shlof, mayn yontev — shlof, mayn meser' (sleep, my holiday — sleep, my knife). Part VI 'Abelars ovnt-tfile' (Abelard's Evening Prayer — Hebrew 'tefilla'): asks 'Got, ver bistu?' (God, who are you?). Knows who he is: 'erd un khoymer' (earth and matter — Hebrew 'chomer'), named Abelard. Asks where God is — knows where he himself is. Philosophical prayer merging Abelard's scholasticism with existential questioning.
,איך -- דיין שוועסטער,
,איך -- דיין מאָמפ
,איך -- דיין חלום,
,אלץ צתאַמע -- *
מאַמע -- שוועסטער,
אַלץ צוזאַמען, --
זע מיין יוםדטוב
ניט פּאַרזאַמען.
אָטדדי זעלטענע
מינוטן +
זע, דאַס מעסער
הייבט אָן בלוטן.
נעענטער. נעענטער.
שוון. | אַרובער, 77 77 --
נעם אַ דעק
און דעק מיך איבער.
איצט איז גוט מיר,
איצט -- נאֶך בעסער +
שלאֶף, מיין יוםדטוםב: --
שלאַף. מיין מעסער.
וצ
אַבעלאַרס אָוונט"תפלה
גאָט --
ווער ביסטו ?
ווער איך בין
ווייס איך :
ערד
און חומר --
אַבעלאַר
הייס איך.
גאָ,
וואו ביסטו? --
ואו איך בין
ווייס איך +
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Ikh — dayn shvester,
ikh — dayn mame,
ikh — dayn kholem,
alts tsuzamen. —
Mame — shvester,
alts tsuzamen, —
ze mayn yontev
nit farzamen.
Ot-di zeltene
minutn;
ze, dos meser
heybt on blutn.
Neenter, neenter.
Shoyn. Ariber. — — —
nem a dek
un dek mikh iber.
Itst iz gut mir,
itst — nokh beser;
shlof, mayn yontev —
shlof, mayn meser.
VI
Abelars ovnt-tfile
Got, —
ver bistu?
ver ikh bin
veys ikh:
erd
un khoymer, —
Abelar
heys ikh.
Got,
vu bistu? —
vu ikh bin
veys ikh;
I — your sister,
I — your mother,
I — your dream,
all together. —
Mother — sister,
all together, —
see my holiday
don't miss.
These rare
minutes;
see, the knife
begins to bleed.
Closer, closer.
Now. Over. — — —
take a blanket
and cover me.
Now it's good for me,
now — still better;
sleep, my holiday —
sleep, my knife.
VI
Abelard's Evening Prayer
God, —
who are you?
who I am
I know:
earth
and matter, —
Abelard
is my name.
God,
where are you? —
where I am
I know;
Page 444. Continuation of 'Yontev': speaker becomes 'shvester... mame... kholem' (sister, mother, dream) — 'alts tsuzamen' (all together), merging identities. Don't miss this 'yontev' (holiday). 'Zeltene minutn' (rare minutes) — 'meser heybt on blutn' (knife begins to bleed). 'Neenter, neenter. Shoyn. Ariber' (Closer, closer. Now. Over) — ritual cutting/death imagery. 'Dek mikh iber' (cover me). Now good, 'nokh beser' (still better). Lullaby to holiday and knife: 'shlof, mayn yontev — shlof, mayn meser' (sleep, my holiday — sleep, my knife). Part VI 'Abelars ovnt-tfile' (Abelard's Evening Prayer — Hebrew 'tefilla'): asks 'Got, ver bistu?' (God, who are you?). Knows who he is: 'erd un khoymer' (earth and matter — Hebrew 'chomer'), named Abelard. Asks where God is — knows where he himself is. Philosophical prayer merging Abelard's scholasticism with existential questioning.
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