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  I love sacred poetry, and particularly Persian writings from the Middle Ages. There’s one poet in particular whose words align with the song in my

“The earlier the better,” says the record producer and author of the forthcoming book “The Creative Act: A Way of Being.” “The stories are engaging and they train readers to look deeply into all they see. A great primer for awareness practice.”

The three-night Ushpizin’s Poetry festival in Jerusalem will reintroduce works by Dickinson, Vysotsky, Pessoa and Gouri under the baton of artistic director Benyamin Shvili.

This past week, as trees continued to bud, as daffodils bloomed, I witnessed life being lived with passion by friends worshipping in Abrahamic traditions; by Christians celebrating Holy Week, by Jews celebrating Passover, by Muslims continuing their prayerful Ramadan fasts.

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. While most of the Arab world uses the Arabic word for bread, khibz, in Egypt the word for bread is aish, which means ‘life.’ Indeed,...