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So adorable. This "Happy Birthday, Hanzo" reminds me of the 'lift-the-flap' books I used to love reading to my children and grandchildren. Thanks for the memory jog. I hope your 2025 is off to a good start.

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Happy birthday Hanzo, happy New Year Etgar and many thanks for Alphabet Soup and all you offer us through it. I love getting your posts each week. Wishing everyone peace and a more sane world in 2025 - somehow!

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you look like a little baby rabbit

with green eyes and soft skin

you taste like salt and chicory

wild leeks that I carried home

you smell of soap and metall

left out in the sun

my parents’ yard

there‘s a tenderness to you

and harshness

that makes me cry

you make me cry little rabbit

you little bunny

hot piping tears come out of me after I hear your words

what can I do there, little bunny

you make me cry with hot tears

after I hear you hurtful words

that make me want to bite

into your stomach

and chew you

and crawl inside your skin

and hold you

and get hold of you and grope you

and eat you up

and crawl inside your skin and grab you from the inside

and get a taste of your warm flesh

and be ingested by you my little rabbit

my sweet sweet bunny

my little baby

i am ready to give birth to you

many times again

and pull you out

out of my thirsting aching body

©️tanyanerada

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Best wishes Hanzo and a very happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

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It is refreshing and comforting that you are so smitten with Hanzo! Shanah (secular) Tovah!

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Happy Hanzokah to you too! I lived with two rabbits for 2 years. They can die of fright too.

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I know , but during the missile alarms he is surprisingly brave

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Happy birthday Hanzol and happy new year to all

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Nu?? So when does the birthday boy become Chief Rabbit? And will he be Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Charedi or Reformi? We are agog, Etgar. Please relieve us of the burden of ignorance and BTW, happy 2025., :)

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Somebunny to love and love us in return. The best we can hope for. Thank you, Etgar, for provoking thought all year long. Now... did somebody say something about carrot cake...?

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Happy Birthday, Hanzo ! And, Etgar, I wish you a 2025 in good health and hopefully in peace.

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I've often wondered how non-kosher animals feel about their place in Israeli society. It'd be insulting on one level, but enormously reassuring on another.

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happy birthday hanzo! may your lettuce never wilt! happy new year etgar!

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Happy Hanzukkah! That was the best! Thank you for another delightful story Etgar

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Happy birthday, Hanzo! Happy New Year to you, Etgar, and to your translator extraordinaire, Jessica Cohen!

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Happy birthday Hanzo and happy new year Etgar. Thank you for standing like a dam against the countless crashing waves.

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Mazal Tov!

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🐰🕺

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