Robin Diamond, at The Blogs

Jan 22, 2025, 2:06 AM

forlorn, cozy in a one-bedroom above the Coney bazaar discreetly nameless among ghosts here have I come to putter among coffee cups and teaspoons plenty of canned goods in the pantry holding out in terrycloth bathrobe even were I to answer the door sequestered here inconsequential and happily...

Jan 20, 2025, 7:18 PM

Mark the Day

Art by my dear friend Cheryl Beychok. Follow her on Instagram as Spiritsculptor

Mark the Day Inured to blood and soil, splattered upon by villains for our sins told to hide in the cleft that His glory might pass by Hidden in the crevices of history history we made and which was our due expelled, denounced, our betrayals,...

Jan 16, 2025, 6:05 PM

When Shall We Win Jerusalem

When shall we win Jerusalem declaring a living G-d took us to Himself there in the broken stone, the reconstituted stone saying, “Stand and watch My salvation”? Who shall declare holy war since that First Light until this seemingly-forsaken age the sepulcher people know the electroplated dome...

Jan 14, 2025, 8:05 PM

His Perfect Path: Erodium

His Perfect Path: Erodium The pampas tufts have long been forever the tree casts a shadow now that all have come home the childrens's swings in the yard now still now is ever and ever when father arrives home through the gate eternal is the...

Jan 13, 2025, 5:04 PM

Awaiting the Chariot

Awaiting the Chariot Come garlands! Ascend the canopies whose gabled slopes send awash tulips beds and Hydrangea A new dew fell, festooned in Light and gorgeous the atriums and holy trellises bind ivy and Climbing Rose in an arcade of Grapevine and Buttercup paths winding...

Jun 27, 2021, 11:27 PM

Sodom Has Gucci

Sodom has Gucci. Sodomites valet your Maserati demanding your celestial guests. Offer them your daughters one in a Vera Wang iconic wedding dress another in Portofino pearl low-tops. But be prepared to flee the palm-lined esplanade. Leave your caramel bruleé latté as the mob is struck...

Jun 24, 2021, 5:41 PM

The current darkness and the Mabul: Rabbi Mendel Kessin

This is an edited transcription. It combines quotes and paraphrases. For this reason, quotation marks are not used except to indicate inventive phraseology or titles. Introduction: The time period before the mashiach comes requires even more elucidation because we are...

Jun 20, 2021, 11:31 PM

Why is There Darkness Before the End? Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Introduction: Sunday, June 13, 2021, Netanyahu was voted out of office after 12 years. Bennett and Lapid are now at the helm. The sensational nature of this development is miraculous. Reviewing the miracles: Bennett could not even pass the threshold...

Jun 16, 2021, 8:23 PM

Understanding the success of the Israeli left: Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Introduction: The rabbi reviews events in Israel, the imminent validation of a coalition of “leftist” parties led by Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid and Yamina’s Naphtali Bennett. This remarkable victory requires examination from the perspective of the Divine Agenda, particularly because...

Jun 6, 2021, 7:20 PM

Current Events & Existence of G-d: Rabbi Mendel Kessin

This transcription is not verbatim but includes much of the rabbi’s exact language. Introduction: Current Events If the “left” succeed in putting together this coalition (in Israel), it will mean the Eirev Rav, the enemies of Judaism, has been victorious which...

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Robin is a retired Language Arts high school teacher who taught in the Los Angeles Unified District for 25 years. After retiring in 2010, she hurriedly made aliyah in 2011.

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