Dayenu 2024
DAYENU
ENOUGH
2024
We have lost
Our capacity to say
Enough.
The long years
When we had nothing,
No land, no state,
No security, no military,
No economy, barely a cent;
Yet each year
We would sing together:
Dayenu-
It could suffice.
But today…
We have
Restored our language
And our land
But have not said,
Dayenu.
We have
Come together
From the far corners of the earth,
Built cities and kibbutzim,
But did not say,
Dayenu.
We have
Returned to Jerusalem.
Rebuilt her glory,
But did not stop to say
Dayenu.
We have
Sown and reaped,
Drawn water from sea and stone
But neglected to say
Dayenu.
We have
Used our ingenuity
To start up
And even exit,
Without pausing to say,
Dayenu.
We have
Fought for our lives
Defeated our foes,
But never said,
Dayenu.
We have
Rebuilt our Torah
With countless scholars,
But when did we say
Dayenu?
We have not sufficed
For ourselves.
We did not love our neighbor
Enough.
Our compassion for our needy was not
Enough.
We did not cherish democracy and equality
Enough.
Nor did we say
Too Much
To Profiteering
To Domineering
To Manipulating
or
To oppressing
Another people.
We who have not said
Dayenu
For our blessings
Now cry out
Dayenu
From our curses.
Hebrew version https://docs.google.com/document/d/19BUTmBfvuzYf720C9mmvEC9HHWHJefcLXpM_ax0zuHM/edit
