“Water Cannot Return”, Yehuda Amichai, Steven Sager2013-09-11 (poetry, ethics; backlinks)⁠:

Water cannot return in repentance.
To where would it return?
To faucet, to source, to earth, to roots,
to cloud, to sea, to my mouth?
Water cannot return in repentance.
Every place is seasons as of old, seas as of old,
every place is beginning and end, and beginning.

[commentary by translator Rabbi Steven Sager on Talmudic background]

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