Topic Tags: war

“The world owed them better. / The world owed them more.”

“Hoshiah na, / please save me from my hardened heart…”

“We are here, / in the Garden, / knocking on Your gates.”

“When I pray for peace, help me stay raw…”

“And still, here we are again / clutching to an ancient book / that has traveled through time / from bitterness to joy…”

A vidui composed to remember the lives of innocent children, killed in war.

“Learn to live together as the family you have always been. Together, let us be a blessing.”

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

​Rabbi Maurice Harris, Associate Director for Thriving Communities and Israel Affairs Specialist, shares a powerful message for this moment.

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