We left the embrace of the sukkahLit. hut or booth A temporary hut constructed outdoors for use during Sukkot, the autumn harvest festival. Many Jews observe the mitzvah of living in the Sukkah for the week of Sukkot, including taking their meals and sleeping in the Sukkah.
for the shelter of Shabbat
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And they blasted away the wall
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Please reopen Your gates of salvation
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Can anyone pick the lock?
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For Your sake and
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For ours
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For fathers gunned down in front of daughters
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For mothers shielding the bodies of sons
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For elders with caregivers bedside
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For Amit who bandaged wounds in the infirmary, who never made it out alive
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For RachelLavan's younger daughter and Jacob's beloved wife second wife (after he is initially tricked into marrying her older sister, Leah). Rachel grieves throughout her life that she is barren while Leah is so fertile. Ultimately, Rachel gives birth to Joseph and dies in childbirth with Benjamin. Rachel is remembered as compassionate (she is said to still weep for her children), and infertile women often invoke Rachel as a kind of intercessor and visit her tomb on the road to Bethlehem. who served the terrorists coffee and cookies
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For Avital who carried babies Eshel and Negev on her back from Gaza
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For Adi, their mother, nowhere to be found
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For Tamar Kedem Simon-Tov, light of Eshkol
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For Johnny, Shachar, Arbel and OmerFrom the second day of Passover until Shavuot, Jews count seven weeks – seven times seven days – to commemorate the period between the Exodus from Egypt and the Revelation at Sinai. When the Temple stood, a certain measure (omer) of barley was offered on the altar each day; today, we merely count out the days.
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For Chayim, his wells of knowledge, unwritten guide books for ways out of war
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For Noa forced away on a motorcycle
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For her father Yaakov begging it not to be so
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For Shani who came to dance, braids swiveling in the open air
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For Doron, little Aviv, little Raz, gone
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For their father Yoni aching to bring them home
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For the thousands filling city squares and sandwiches and boxes for the soldiers called
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For the thousands giving beds, giving blood
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For the ones who circled with Torahs in bomb shelters
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For 260 motionless dancers
draped in white like Torahs in rows
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Holy holy holy
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For the earth screaming and soaked
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For Darom Adom
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For whole worlds swallowed back to dust
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For the missiles tearing kriyah through the sky
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For the fliers of the missing
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For the fliers for the dead
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For the words that fall flat
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As too many souls ascend
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When will You lie us down in peace?
When will these hakafotPlural of "hakafah." The hakafah is the procession made with the Torah before the Torah service. The term "hakafot" is the plural and also generally refers to the seven circuits made with the Torah on Simchat Torah. of violence end?
