These verses cry out darshenu (interpret us). Rashi


for following the aleph...
 m a y  
 I  o f f e r  y o u
 t h i s  g e m  b y   E l i   S i e g e l ?

		
						             substance
						       is what remains
						        when everything you can think of
						           has gone




  
										
					
					f o r   h a v i n g  a l r ea d y   g o n e   t h i s   f a r
a  f e w  m o r e  s o u r c e s   of  i n s p i r a t i o n :
my reading list
somewords on Shabbat by Heschel
amidrash on the origin of tears
Primo Levi on charismatic leaders
Rav Kook on the pure Tzaddikim 
					
					
					 a n d  f o r   t h o s e   w h o  f e e l   c o n c e r n e d  
     by  w h a t   g o e s  o n  n o t   v e r y   f a r :
A web site of hope
Ahad Ha'am's & Hannah Arendt's clearly prophetic words
Some distinctions by the clear Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Europe's Unified Voice and Passion by Andrei S. Markovits
The War of Awful Days by Ari Shavit
The General and the Rabbi by Akiva Eldar
Jewish 'control' of world reported by the Associated Press
Nationalism with a big but, and guts by Uri Avnery
Victors Beware by Uzi Benziman
Against the Ostriches (my excerpt/renaming a Haaretz article) by Zeev Sternhell
The Roots of Jihad by Ehud Ein-Gil