A Blessing for all our Children [at the Onset of the School Year], by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

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	Dear, Precious Ones, Our Children, May you be blessed in your goings and comings, in your ongoing journeys through an uncertain world. May God protect you from evil and from carelessness.
	May your hearts grow in awareness and sensitivity. May your minds deepen in appreciation and curiosity.
	May you learn life’s lessons and be strengthened. May whatever successes you achieve find you humble and ready to share, graciously and generously. May whatever challenges you face find you brave and ready to ask for help.
	May you be blessed with good neighbors, good teachers, and good friends. May this world invite your hearts’ gifts and the gift of your hearts. May your soul be resilient and heal fully and quickly whenever it needs to.
	May we, your teachers and families, be blessed to witness your amazing paths forward, inward, and upward. May you never doubt the overflowing love and gratitude we feel for you. May the Source of Life pour through you and surround you as you choose your next steps. May you know and share kindness, deep and true.
	Thank you for being ours, and for being your own, glorious selves. We love you more than we can say.

“A Blessing for all our Children” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was first published on his Facebook Page on 31 August 2020 and subsequently shared via the Open Siddur Project through our Facebook Discussion Group.

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Menachem Creditor

Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at UJA-Federation New York and was the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. A frequent speaker in communities and campuses around the United States and Israel with over 1 million views of his online videos and essays, he was named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. His 22 books and 6 albums of original music include the global anthem "Olam Chesed Yibaneh" and the anthologies "When We Turned Within" and "None Shall Make Them Afraid." He has been involved in the leadership of American Jewish World Service, AIPAC, the Rabbinical Assembly, and the One America Movement, an organization dedicated to bringing together Americans of different faiths and opinions. He and his wife Neshama Carlebach live in New York, where they are raising their five children.

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ברכה לילדים | Blessing for Children [at the Onset of the School Year] (Siddur Tefilat ha-Adam, Israeli Reform Movement 2020)

First Day of School, Kiryat Ono Municipality, circa 1970s (credit: Kiryat Ono Archive Pikiwiki Israel, license CC BY)

מי שברך לילדים והוריהם בשלהי שנה ובפתיחה | Mi sheBeraj para los niños y sus padres en el inicio de un nuevo año escolar | Mi sheBerakh for Children and

תפילת המורה לפני פתיחת שנת הלימודים | Oración de los maestros antes del inicio del año escolar | Prayer of the teacher before commencement of the school year (Masorti Movement

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Newly Huddled Tender Masses: A Prayer for Children, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2018)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17