Prayer while awaiting election returns, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2022)

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Shared on: 8 November 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Categories: Elections & Voting

Tags: 2022 United States elections, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., United States

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	As the ballots are counted, we ask You, Dear Lord, hold us all.
	Reach those who receive more votes with Your Graceful Spirit. Teach them humility.
	Reach those who receive fewer votes with Your Wisdom. Teach them patience.
	Remind us, Holy One, that power is meant to be temporary and that, in the end, loving our neighbors is the only Policy that matters. Amen.

This untitled prayer for US Election Day was written by Rabbi Menachem Creditor and shared through the Open Siddur Project Facebook Discussion Group on 8 November 2022.

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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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