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Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. 

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Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. 

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May these never end
The sand and the sea
The rustle of the waters
The lightning of the heavens
The prayer of man.

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What do you think was happening in her life during that time?

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What do you think was happening in her life during that time?

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Why do you think that this poem is still important today?

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Why do you think that this poem is still important today?

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Read these poems by Hannah Szenes and then answer the questions in the "Questions" column on the right. Don't forget to add you name!

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Watch this video to hear the famous song recording of this poem:

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Watch this video to hear the famous song recording of this poem:

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i think the people were in bad times then do something good happened because in the poem it said"the lighting of the heavens, the prayer of man" so that's why i think it's bad then something good happened . thy might of been at war so they might have almost died, and then they got luck from the prayer of man and it said the lighting of the heavens.

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These poems represent sadness and deep depression. Nothing hopeful in them 

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These poems represent sadness and deep depression. Nothing hopeful in them 

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Leo

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It's important to honor her. maybe it was her form of prayer

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It was a bad time during the war. It is important because the people in the war were affected and the people nearby. They get drafted into the army. We use them to show how we have improved since then.

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I think these poems are important because she. wrote them during a war and it must have been a very bad time. I like the first one because it is a very poetic and well written poem.

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I think the second one is more dominate because the first one has no meaning and should be digressed but the first one has an idea of life it self.

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I think these poems are still important today because you could still use them today and they would still make sense.

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Hannah Szenes experienced antisemitism then, and it still exists today. It is important to read her work to understand a bit of what she went through. In "Blessed is the Match" Szenes seems to be surrendering to the unknown for the sake of helping others/ he greater good.