My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west. <br />How can I find savor in food? How shall it be sweet to me? <br />How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet <br />Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? <br />A light thing would it seem to me <br />to leave all the good things of Spain - <br />Seeing how precious in mine eyes <br />to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.<br /><br />Yehudah HaLevi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-longing-to-return-to-the-land-of-israel/
