A Mini-Seliḥot, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor

Shared on: 21 September 2019 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical seliḥot, סליחות səliḥot, תחינות teḥinot

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	God, forgive us, but please help us surpass the pre-written stuff. Remind us to believe in our own living hearts and mouths and souls.
	Hear us when we speak. Comfort us when we cry. Guide us when we stray.
	God, please forgive us for the things we did wrong and were brave enough to name, strong enough to own, and hopeful enough to see past.
	May the coming year find us ready to be our full size, strong and brave and hopeful, alive and healthy and safe.
	May the coming year be a good one.
	For everyone, Dear God, for everyone.
	Amen.

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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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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