From Bondage to Freedom: Rabbi Hanna Yerushalmi on Poetry and October 7

Smiling woman with long brown hair sits outdoors, with flowers and greenery softly blurred in the background.

Rabbi Hanna Yerushalmi never set out to be a poet. While she wrote extensively for her rabbinic work and occasionally kept a journal, she did not regularly read or write poetry. Her emergence as a poet came in the wake of tragedy. After October 7, poems began pouring out of her. Since then, Yerushalmi has […]