Invocation by Rabbi Sharon Brous at the Democratic National Convention (2024)

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Shared on: 22 August 2024 under the Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication

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	We gather this week for holy work: together, we are crafting a redemption story for America.
	As a rabbi, I know something about redemption stories. My faith is sustained by the story of a people, beleaguered and bereft, traversing the desert on a journey from degradation to dignity, darkness to light.
	Holy One, help us write America’s redemption story— a story of ceaseless striving toward a true multiracial democracy, rooted in equal justice, where every person is an image of God— unique, mighty, and worthy of love.
	In this story, politics is not a vehicle for repression, bigotry, or personal profit, but instead a call to solidarity and service.
	This story counters extremism with capaciousness and compassion. It is rooted in the knowledge that our most sacred responsibility is to honor one another’s humanity.
	This story rejects the inevitability of violence and war, affirming that every one of us— Muslim, Jew, Christian, Black, white, Latino, AAPI,^[1] Asian American and Pacific Islanders queer and straight, Israeli and Palestinian — deserves to live in dignity and peace.
	Some say this story is impossible, but the God of redemption specializes in the impossible— and so must we.
	May we be guided always by hope, joy, and a fierce moral imagination. Amen.

This is the invocation offered by Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR (Los Angeles, California) on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, 20 August 2024. Her invocation was offered together with that of Imam Dr. Talib M. Shareef of The Nation’s Mosque (Washington, DC).

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1	Asian American and Pacific Islanders

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Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous is a Conservative movement rabbi in the United States. She is the senior rabbi of IKAR (Los Angeles, California) and the author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Heal Our Hearts and Mend Our Broken World (2024).

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1 comment to Invocation by Rabbi Sharon Brous at the Democratic National Convention (2024)

Adrienne Varady
2024-08-23 at 1:22 am · Reply.
That a Rabbi was chosen to give the opening prayer for this determinative convention is truly a great thing.

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