A Prayer for Uvalde [after the Massacre at Robb Elementary School], by Rabbi Stephen Belsky (25 May 2022)

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Stephen Belsky

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30 August 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

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Mass Shootings & Gun Violence

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., United States Gun Policy, Gun violence in the United States, Robb Elementary School shooting

A prayer for Uvalde and for all of us, from a little over three hours away, up the road in Austin…

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	May Gd who grants dominion to rulers and responsibility to citizens – whose kingdom is all eternities – comfort, console and strengthen those who were injured yesterday in the attack on Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, along with the bereaved families and friends of those who were murdered.
	Heal the grieving community of Uvalde; protect our distraught state of Texas; bless the entire United States of America, and inspire all its inhabitants with love and brotherhood.
	In Gd’s great mercies, uproot and destroy all cruelty, hatred, and violence from upon us, among us, and within us, and place in the hearts of all our leaders to love peace, and to preserve the peace and freedom of the land, until the coming of the day of our prophets’ vision – when Gd consoles exiles like a mother, and the world is full of the knowledge of God as water covers the seas.
	Let this be Gd’s will, and let us say amein.
	(And when we pray, think carefully about what we mean to ask from God – and what we need to demand of each other.)

This prayer was first shared by Rabbi Stephen Belsky on his Facebook page, 25 May 2022.

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Stephen Belsky

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Stephen Belsky is a graduate of the Yeshiva of Flatbush, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and the Educators Program of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He received semikha at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and while studying there held internships at Beth David Synagogue in West Hartford, Connecticut, and the International Rabbinic Fellowship. Before starting semikha, Stephen taught at the Schechter high school in Teaneck, New Jersey, and after ordination, he returned to education, teaching Jewish Studies in the middle and high school divisions of Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield, Michigan. In addition to classroom teaching, Stephen has taught and lectured both in his local community and in synagogues across the eastern United States.

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Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas, Taken 7/22/15 (credit: Don Holloway, license: CC BY)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established."–Psalms 90:17