Leah’s Song

David Baron
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readDec 6, 2016

I did naught but was Holy Will.

Why the love-charms and the heavy veil?

My dear Yankel, not all is revealed!

Story of Yakov and Leah — Jewish wedding practice is that the chatan lifts the veil beforehand, the oyfdekenish, to prevent a recurrence.

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David Baron
Poets Unlimited

Dovid has been writing poetry, country and Jewish liturgical music and other stuff for … over fifty years? Yessir. Still not on the Sunday Times Bestseller Li