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“The wilderness ahead blurs into an unknowable future…”
Vast desert landscape with rocky formations and a distant horizon under a partly cloudy sky.
“The world owed them better. / The world owed them more.”
A single red poppy growing beside a railway track, surrounded by small rocks and green foliage.
“Hoshiah na, / please save me from my hardened heart…”
Red heart carved into a rough, textured tree bark with cracks and some patches of green moss.
“We are here, / in the Garden, / knocking on Your gates.”
A stack of rocks on a desert landscape with distant mountains under a clear blue sky.
“When I pray for peace, help me stay raw…”
A dirt path lined with olive trees and stone walls leads through a scenic landscape under a clear blue sky.
“And still, here we are again / clutching to an ancient book / that has traveled through time / from bitterness to joy…”
an open Torah scroll
A vidui composed to remember the lives of innocent children, killed in war.
a pink rose, wet with dew
“Learn to live together as the family you have always been. Together, let us be a blessing.”
purple grapes hanging on a vine
This version of the ‘Unetaneh Tokef’ prayer refers to the atrocities that took place on Oct. 7.
a dusty road
​Rabbi Maurice Harris, Associate Director for Thriving Communities and Israel Affairs Specialist, shares a powerful message for this moment.
a brown shofar set on an open prayerbook

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