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# Morning Mug: Blessed Is The Match
- URL: https://bklyner.com/morning-mug-blessed-is-the-match-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2012-04-24T10:00:49.000Z
- Updated: 2012-04-23T03:16:29.000Z
- Author: Erica Sherman
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The poem, “*Ashre Hagafrur*” (“Blessed is the Match”), engraved into the stone marker nearest to the foreground, is the last poem Hannah Szenes (pronounced “Senesh”) wrote before she parachuted into a Yugoslavian partisan camp in an effort to rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz:

> *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.*

Photo by Boris Shekhman