A Prayer for the New Year (5781), by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

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Rosh haShanah l'Maaseh Bereshit

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United States, North America, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers for the New Year, weariness, תקון tiqqun

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	Dear God, May we learn/remember how to open up our hearts and minds and souls.
	May we reclaim the headlines with the shocking good we’ll do.
	May our children inherit some good decisions we’ll make to offset our countless mistakes.
	May we take really good care of each other and heal this fragile world.
	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