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Dear God, God, we stand waiting for a world, this world, our world to be reborn. | |
It’s not a statement we make lightly; it is a statement of need. | |
This world needs rebirthing. Our hearts need deep healing. Our lives need rebuilding after all the pointless deaths we’ve endured this past year. | |
Dear God, Guns and violence have destroyed tens of thousands of lives in America this year. Tens of thousands. | |
We call to You, Adonai, and beg that you stand in Din, in Judgment, of our carelessness and our callousness at the senseless, avoidable loss of many human lives. | |
We call to you, Adonai, to infuse our souls with Ḥesed, Your Love, so that we really start to cry out from the pain our nation has endured for far too long. | |
May we be inspired by You and act to save many, many lives this coming year. We know that only then will we be worthy of a world reborn. | |
Hayom, Today, we remember Your command to choose life is not a given in Your broken world but rather a demand upon us all. | |
Hayom, Today, we sing louder than weapons: Those who sow in tears, will reap, will reap in joy.[1] Psalms 126:5. | |
God, May we merit to see You in each other’s eyes and sanctify Your Name by standing together by rising up again, this time rebuilding Your World by saving each other’s. | |
Amen. |
“Today — A Rosh HaShannah Prayer to End Gun Violence” was first published during Elul Zman (the season of ḥeshbon nefesh) by Rabbi Menachem Creditor on his Facebook Page, and shared through the Open Siddur Project via our Facebook discussion group. The prayer is a riff from Hayom T’amtsenu, a litany that concludes the Musaf service of both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It is a fragment of a longer piyyut which is found in its complete form in the Italian synagogue rite.
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“TODAY: A Rosh haShanah Prayer to End Gun Violence, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor (2019)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
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