Lazarus The Jew

            A rich man and a beggar

            lived and died together

      When living

            the rich man stepped over

            Lazarus the beggar

            who laid at his door

            begging

            while the dogs licked his sores

      When they were dead

            Abraham held Lazarus

            to his chest

            his hand holding his head

            to his heart

            like a father holds a child

                while the rich man watched

                from afar

                unable to move

                out of the flames

                of fear and shame

                that consumed him

      Who was Lazarus?

      And why was he a beggar

            Lazarus was the Jew

            who heard Moses and the prophets

            and so became a beggar

            in this world

           And a beloved child embraced by Abraham

            in the next

      Who were the dogs

            who licked the sores

            of Lazarus the Jew?

                They were the true Shabbos Goys

                who did all they could rightly do

                to comfort Lazarus

                in this world

      And who was the rich man?

            He was the soul without a source

            whose emptiness is like a dragon

            and whose pride is his god

      who does not hear Moses and the prophets

      For to the [hardened] sinner

      God gives the labor 

      of gathering up     

      and accumulating things…

     (Ecclesiastes 2:26)