Leslie,

I am thinking perhaps something Passover-related is appropo to add to your Easter dialogue here...

I found the information and the little poem I was referring to in my reply to your reply on my Vibrational Health Village blog.

It's about Hannah Senesch. First the information, then the poem, from a Revisionist Seder Haggadah:

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Before Lighting Candles

Hannah Senesch was a Hungarian woman who arrived in Palestine in 1938, at age seventeen. She felt a sense of destiny, that she had a mission to fulfill. This inner calling led her to enlist in a special military unit that was to warn Jews in Hungary of Hitler's lethal plans. Members of the unit were parachuted into Yugoslavia and from there made their way by foot into Hungary. Hannah Senesch was captured, tortured, and put to death at the age of 20. She wrote this poem in prison in Budapest before her execution:

Blessed is the match consumed in igniting flames.
Blessed is the flame that flared in the recesses of the heart.
Blessed are the hearts with strength to throb their last beat in dignity.
Blessed is the match consumed in igniting flames.

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