Open Closed Open: Poems
by Yehuda Amichai
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Author: Yehuda AmichaiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-06
ISBN: 0156030500
Number of pages: 204
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: The violent or anonymous love of God for Israel? A translation mistake
Summary: 5 Stars
There is a translation mistake on p. 45: "God's love for His people Israel is... almost violent", should be: 'almost anonymous' (note the continuation: "on a no-name basis"), as a look at the Hebrew original shows. The words sound similar in Hebrew, and, but for a crucial different letter, are also spelled similarly. Amichai may have intended the double entendre. In this part of the poem Amichai points to the physical, embodied and impersonal use of force on the part of God in the early part of the Exodus narrative, and contrasts this with the spiritual, dis-emboded, and personal God of later Judaism. While this latter God is conventionally rated higher, Amichai finds it "hopeless' to return love to such a dis-embodied God. Love has to be embodied to be real for him.
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