Kolot: Voices from The Ark Synagogue
Jul 4, 2026 · 11 min · 4 segments
In this talk the speaker explores the deep fatigue of the prophet Elijah as reflected in Anna Kamienska’s poem and the haftarah narrative. Listeners will grapple with questions of purpose, the "kol…
Lea MühlsteinHost
I don't need more than the shade of a tree, broom tree to rest my head, a shawl of darkness for eyes.
You wake them with a jolt of new hurt, to place a new desert beneath their feet, to give them a new mouth, a new voice, and a new name.
In Ana Kamieński's poem, she speaks both to questioning of the rational, the, the rational mind suffers and the call for faith.
Can I endure? Why me? Is my task even achievable? Will I let others, will I let God down? In the Tanakh, in the Hebrew Bible account, Elijah is gifted with a kol d'mamad ka.
A regular alternative is a soft murmuring sound, or perhaps we can consider Paul Simon's Sound of Silence, unlike that gifted by our cheder right now.
[laughs]
Sometimes we are so fraught, lost, and that which usually gives us courage, strength, and hope fails.
Sarah Mathes simply queries in her poem, I Cannot Remember the Configuration of Prayer.
And is any of it me? Many would associate theophanies with phenomena experienced in Elijah's dream: wind, fire, earthquakes.
However, the time and space after a storm we might best describe as a contemporary understanding of God and indeed this most powerful of prophetic moments.
I don't need more than the shade of a tree, broom tree to rest my head, a shawl of darkness for eyes.
You wake them with a jolt of new hurt, to place a new desert beneath their feet, to give them a new mouth, a new voice, and a new name.
In Ana Kamieński's poem, she speaks both to questioning of the rational, the, the rational mind suffers and the call for faith.
Can I endure? Why me? Is my task even achievable? Will I let others, will I let God down? In the Tanakh, in the Hebrew Bible account, Elijah is gifted with a kol d'mamad ka.
A regular alternative is a soft murmuring sound, or perhaps we can consider Paul Simon's Sound of Silence, unlike that gifted by our cheder right now.
[laughs]
Sometimes we are so fraught, lost, and that which usually gives us courage, strength, and hope fails.
Sarah Mathes simply queries in her poem, I Cannot Remember the Configuration of Prayer.
And is any of it me? Many would associate theophanies with phenomena experienced in Elijah's dream: wind, fire, earthquakes.
However, the time and space after a storm we might best describe as a contemporary understanding of God and indeed this most powerful of prophetic moments.
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