Parent/Reader 1:
May you be blessed with the strength to love and care and feel confident in your own self, even as you hold multiple truths at once: you are beautiful yet imperfect, strong yet vulnerable, loving yet in need of love. As the sage Hillel says, if I am not for myself, who will be for me?Â
Parent/Reader 2:
May you have the courage to face the pain and injustice in the world and the chutzpah to insist on compassion over indifference, action over disengagement and hope over despair. As the sage Hillel says, if I am only for myself, what am I?Â
TOGETHER:
May you make space and time for joy, fun, curiosity, love, and comfort even as you work to care for yourself and repair the world. As the sage Hillel says: if not now, when?
