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In the intimacy of a home, Jewish women and their families gather for Shabbat. In place of the traditional opening Psalm, the women around whose table they were assembled reads a poem to open this Sabbath meal:

Three generations back
my family had only
to light a candle
and the world parted.
Today, Friday afternoon,
I disconnect the clocks and phones.
When night fills my house
with passages.