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A note for using this prayer. Eight qualities are mentioned in the prayer: Peace, Blessing, Hope, Return, Promise, Strength, Life, Courage. You can pick one to focus on each night. (You can do them in the order they appear in if you like.) Where do you find that quality in you? Where do you find it in the world? What will a life, or a world, transformed by that quality look like? Feel like?
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Just as Ḥanukkah marks the turning point in the year from growing darkness to growing light, may it also mark for us this year a turning point from war and killing and curse, toward peace and blessing and hope. | |
May the hostages be returned speedily, may the destruction of Gaza stop, and may the way be cleared for peace blessing and justice throughout the land of the promise, for all her inhabitants, from the river to the sea. | |
As the United States turns to installing a new administration, may we be strengthened in our resolve to care for the stranger, to fight for the climate and for all living creatures, and to live toward peace and justice. | |
We ask of ourselves that we will protect just laws and vulnerable people, and that our resistance to unjust laws or unjust systems be firm. May our hearts be courageous. May our hands be strong. May our work succeed. V’hyi no’am Adonai Eloheinu aleinu, uma’aseh yadeinu kon’na aleinu, uma’aseh yadeinu kon’neyhu. (Psalms 90:17) |
Rabbi David Seidenberg’s “A prayer for all 8 nights of Chanukah” was shared by the author on social media and through his neohasid email list on 25 December 2024.
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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
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