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“In your sadness / and joy, / through your struggles / and triumphs / you are enough.”
“It is important to listen, / to our own/each other’s / stories…”
“The bowl / cracks / cleanly / a sea parting / to freedom.”
“The plagues are real and / This time they’re directed at us. / So what are we going to do?”
“Soon I will rise / to bear witness to you / once more in these ancient words…”
“I belong in a community—I want to communicate with stories & songs and food—let there be food, bitter and festive…”
What would you bring to the Mishkan?
“These are the blessings we learn from living in the world: / that loving other people /is loving ourselves.”
“Night will always become day / And day will come with answers…”
“To mark the haste with which we fled, / we now eat matzah for eight days”

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