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If Passover is the defining Jewish\\xa0holiday, then Yehuda Amichai is Israel\'s defining poet. Host Marcela Sulak reads some of\\xa0his interpretations of\\xa0the foundational Passover narrative, as we listen to music set to his words.\\xa0

In his poem "Jewish Travel," Amichai imagines Moses standing on Mount Nebo, staring into the Promised Land - a land he would never enter:

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He yearned for the land of Canaan he would never see,
but he turned east, toward the desert of those forty years,
and wrote the Torah as a travel book,
a memoir, every chapter with something very personal
that was his alone...

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Text:

Open Closed Open, by Yehuda Amichai. Translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. Harcourt, Inc., 2000.\\xa0

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Music:

The Place In Which We\'re Right - Yoni Rechter and Rona Kenan

By The Well Of My Birthplace - Ofra Haza

God Pities Kindergarden Children - Suzy Miller