Israel Reclaimed

We have been traumatized.

October 7th pushed us into the realm

of thought,

of argument,

of sides.

That pit in the bottom of our gut,

the stone of separation,

is begging for hearts to be

breathed into softening

even as our thoughts have lined up

to take us into battle.

has been made to feel unsafe

in the very body of Israel.

The existential threat

has cast us to the furthest reaches

away from our center.

Prayer, the journey of transcendence,

is paradoxical –

through individual bodies,

We leave our bodies

in order to become

one collective body.

Prayer, the sacred blessing where

all our limbs can be rewoven

returning us into our whole.

Prayer,

the act

of our

reclamation.

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