From the Depths: A Prayer For Christchurch, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2019)

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Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Mass Shootings & Gun Violence

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	Dear God, From the depths we call to You.
	Our broken hearts, shattered like glass, like a windshield, or a child’s glasses, or a sanctuary window…
	This wounding moment – there, here, to every ‘us’ imaginable, Divine reflections fractured and bloodied again and again, like a sick dream.
	Dear God, how do You endure this madness? How do we? Look what Your children are willing to do to each other…
	We collect these hard, cold, things, glorify them like treasured keepsakes forgetting their purpose is pure: to kill.
	Holy One, we’re devastated. Again. It’s really hard to remember a world without bulletproof backpacks and armed guards outside of every sanctuary.
	Help us remember a world that felt lighter than this one.
	Fill our torn hearts with Your spirit as we do the impossible work of burying our dead, cut down during prayer. Again.
	Remind us to show up at our neighbors’ mosque’s today, with flowers and tears and outstretched arms.
	Help us heal. Help us heal each other and fix the very broken world you bequeathed us. We need You. We really need You.
	Amen.

“From the Depths: A Prayer For Christchurch” was written by Rabbi Menachem Creditor in response to the massacre of Muslims at worship during Friday services in Christchurch, NewZealand. He shared it through the Open Siddur Project via the Open Siddur Project’s Discussion Group on Facebook. #EndGunViolence #BuildOnLove

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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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