Ki Sisa

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Ki Sisa

“Erase me” said Moshe, defending the Am,

Forget that I ever existed.

G-d said in reply, 

“those that sinned I’ll erase”,

And none of their names have persisted.

But erasing leaves traces, there still will remain,

An impression of what was first written.

Erase, and erase, 

and erase once again,

And it still won’t completely be stricken.

For certain, HaShem himself never forgets,

Our Fathers he counts to our credit,

And from “avon avos”, 

he will cleanse us with love,

But the stain still remains as a debit.

This may explain why, vis-a-vis Amalek,

We must blot out their name altogether,

But still we recall,

 what they did, after all,

For the imprint of that lasts forever.