Type: Poem

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“Please, Adonai, bring about new beginnings”

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“We take for granted that we have food to eat”

A person sitting on a windowsill, gazing outside at a tree and houses with red roofs.

Shekhinah, our Mother, would understand”

a person wearing a long white dress and bracelet stands in a shallow, murky body of water

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