https://opensiddur.org/?p=34150A Prayer for Today (US Election Day 2020), by Rabbi Shai Held2020-11-03 06:00:22A Prayer on US Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd 2020.Textthe Open Siddur ProjectShoshana Michael Zucker (translation)Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation)Shai Heldhttps://opensiddur.org/copyright-policy/Shoshana Michael Zucker (translation)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Elections & VotingElection Day45th President of the United StatesUnited States General Election 2020Donald Trump21st century C.E.58th century A.M.
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May it be Your will,
YHVH our god and god of our ancestors,
that good triumph over evil,
light triumph over darkness,
and that love and kindness triumph over hatred and cruelty.
Grant residents of our land a heart of flesh,
and teach us all, as one,
to love loving kindness and pursue justice;
give us the courage
to love the migrant, the orphan and the widow,
and to protect the poor and downtrodden.
May the words of our mouths,
the meditations of our hearts
and the work of our hands[1] Cf. Psalms 90:17.
find favor in your sight YHVH,
our Rock and our Redeemer.[2] Cf. Psalms 19:15.
אָמֵן אָמֵן.
Amen amen.
A Prayer for Today (US Election Day 2020) by Rabbi Shai Held ש״י הלד was first published in Hebrew on his Facebook page. English translation by Shoshana Michael Zucker. Niqqud added by Aharon Varady.
Shoshana Michael Zucker was first fascinated by the boundaries and history of Jewish liturgy as a teenager in NFTY in the early 1970s, the waning days of the Union Prayer Book. Since then, she has moved to Israel, raised a family and launched them into adulthood, while praying from varied siddurim with countless notes in the margin and extra notes stuck between the pages. A translator and editor by profession, she would rather study and teach Torah.
Rabbi Shai Held is Co-Founder, Dean and Chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar. Before that, he served for six years as Scholar-in-Residence at Kehilat Hadar in New York City, and taught both theology and Halakha at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He also served as Director of Education at Harvard Hillel. A renowned lecturer and educator, Shai is a 2011 recipient of the Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education. He has taught for institutions such as Drisha, Me'ah, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and the Rabbinic Training Institute, and currently serves on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage program. Shai has a PhD in religion from Harvard; his main academic interests are in modern Jewish and Christian thought and in the history of Zionism. His book, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence was published by Indiana University Press in the fall of 2013
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