Topic Tags: God

This short poem is inspired by the process of creation as told in Bereshit.

“I strive to generate some forgiveness / for the failures of my growing up life…”

“praise Yah in the sunlight that filters through the window..”

“On Sukkot we bring our disparate parts back to ourselves…”

“As the gates close / May I remember / To move forward…”

“We come from the Ayn Sof as broken shards of creation…”

This version of the ‘Unetaneh Tokef’ prayer refers to the atrocities that took place on Oct. 7.

“Hide them / beneath the cover of Your wings, forever, / And let their souls be bound up with ours…”

“What is the path home? / Out from our buried place? / To Peace?”

A prayer from Rabbi Deborah Waxman, President and CEO, Reconstructing Judaism, to mark the first anniversary of the atrocities that took place on October 7.