A Prayer for the United States of America Right Now, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2021)

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Insurrections, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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116th Congress, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, 21st century C.E., 45th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, United States

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	Holy One, We call out to You in a moment of deep distress, an eruption of violence and hatred in the heart of our nation.
	Send Your Spirit among us, sheltering our sisters and brothers, elected leaders, emergency responders, police and law enforcement from all harm.
	Place in our hearts a commitment to remember the horror of today’s assault on our government.
	Dear God, bless the United States of America with healing, with health, and with peace. Amen.

A prayer for America on the day upon which right-wing militias carried out a failed insurrection upon the representative democratic institution of the United States Congress at the behest of then “president” Donald Trump, his enablers and allies on 6 January 2021. This prayer was first published by Rabbi Menachem Creditor on his Facebook page and shared via the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook. –Aharon Varady

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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A Prayer for the United States of America Right Now, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2021)

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