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“What is the path home? / Out from our buried place? / To Peace?”
a person's hands are clasped together sitting on an open book
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.
a white dove flies with wings spread wide, behind the dove are tall trees
“I am the Jew / I am a shofar  Calling to the world.”
Person blowing a shofar outdoors, draped in a tallit, with sunlight and Hebrew letters in the background.
Lesléa Newman uses the sestina form to capture her grief.
a shadowy image of a lone tree by a stream
“Especially on Yom Kippur — we are singing for our lives in community.”
an open book with words and musical notes
“May the descendants of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar drink from Be’er L’chai Ro’i, the wellspring of divine nourishment…”
gazelle climb on a hill in the desert
“Together we will recite / the only prayer this New Year; / the prayer home.”
Several bees are flying near the entrance of a beehive, with a blurred green background.
“Only one thing have we shown: we will destroy this world if you let it…”
a field with clouds waving across the sky above it
A powerful poem, remembering those whose lives were lost on October 7th
a single leaf on the ground
“My heart / is cracked / into more pieces / than I thought possible…”
a person walking towards trees, a leaf in the foreground

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