Gefilte Kraut- and other recipes for life, through the generations

To communicate the feelings in my heart

About the Gefilte Kraut fillechlach cooking on my stove

All telling a story about life, faith and love

When I do, the results cant be better

This recipe, from Czechoslovakia and her ancestors beyond, hails

Gives me a chance to think about what her recipe entails

Babby showed through her morals, her dreams, her life, her hope

She lived through the infamous fire, but she fiercely did cope

She gave us recipes for life painstakingly

Hoping to see the Yiddishe Nachas she desired, so achingly

Similar to the fillechlach in my pot

She suffered through thick and thin, so was her lot

Through hot and cold, fire and ice

Metamorphosing after the torture, into something uniquely good and amazingly nice

Years and years of her many efforts and dishes

Enveloped with dreams and wishes

She lovingly would dole

Offered with her whole heart and soul

Hoping for the best for her children

Wishing only the best for them and their grandchildren

Her goal was that the future generations would carry on

Traditions she hoped would never be gone

Each and every fillachel wrapped with much care

Filled with much love, much prayer

With much beseeching G-d and much tears

Throughout many a century, many years

Lets not let her down

Lets give her Yiddishe pride

The gratitude she deserves for how with all her energies she tried

Lets offer her and her ancestors pleasure, not pain

No losses, only gain

For the incalculable travail

Lets be sure not to let any of their efforts fail

Lets realize that throughout life we all make big and small mistakes

Lets focus and implement each others strengths

And together go to all lengths

To have peace and serenity in our lives

With much concentration and perseverance

Not allowing any negative interference

Lets pass on the link

Please pass this recipe, this message, on to your children, with love

What I’ve tried to enclose is known in the Heaven above

Please enjoy and savor these fillechlach, my children, I try my best to continue the link from the past

Please do everything in your power to let this recipe last

With each effort and love filled fillachel we consume

Let it in our mind and heart loom

How rapidly the universe does change

SH

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