Our Liberation Will Not Be Live-streamed, by Rabbi Raysh Weiss (2020)

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45th President of the United States, Jewish liberation, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, liberation from mitsrayim, 2020 coronavirus outbreak in the United States, 2020 coronavirus pandemic, virtual community, liberation, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer

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	Our Liberation Will Not Be Live-streamed
	You will not be able to stay in and you will not be able to log out you will not be able to self-mute, block your face, and turn away Because our liberation will not be live-streamed
	Our liberation will not be live-streamed Our liberation will not be a panel of experts from every institution who imagines themselves to exist our liberation will not be a power point presentation breaking down the trends of yesterday to pretend we know tomorrow Our liberation will not be delivered by next-day shipping brought to your door, signed, sealed, and disinfected our liberation will not be the othering of ourselves our liberation will not bail out corporations and deny the dying ventilators
	Our liberation will not be live-streamed There will be no detained immigrants, gasping for air families torn doubly asunder by distance and disease friends forgotten sinking into this dystopian digital divide an inferno of screens and blue smoldering light in the darkness There will be no floating emojis or thumbs up virtual backdrops, memes of your friend’s cat eating his toilet paper while you lose your job There will be no video confessionals to an audience you cannot see, no international conspiracy theories and news that is not new
	Our liberation will not be live-streamed There will be no jingoistic nationalism and brandishing of red hats of hate There will be no “choosing between the better of two evils” and staying home when asked to vote There will be no `Ctrl` `Alt` `Delete` or well-behaved moderator who reminds you of the rules
	Our liberation will not be live-streamed Our liberation will not be sent out as a private link password-protected, or trolled by faceless phonies robocalling your aging parent or inquiring about your loan which does not exist or the cruise package you do not wish to win
	Our liberation will not be live-streamed Our liberation will not begin after this ad or ask you to complete a five-minute survey or gather your personal data for the benefit of someone you will never meet Our liberation will not decide whose deaths are more important than others and which countries to ignore or vilify our liberation will not be at the cost of wage theft our liberation will promote neither #RealBeauty, Real ID, nor the real Donald Trump our liberation will not risk others’ lives on account of our boredom our liberation cannot be hoarded our liberation WILL be shared and created by us our liberation will not be live-streamed WILL not be live-streamed, WILL NOT BE LIVE-STREAMED Our liberation will not be recorded Our liberation will be live. Next year, we pray, in-person, in good health, wherever, however. How was your meeting experience?

Modeled after Gil Scott Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not be Televised,” written for Passover during the pandemic (April 2020).

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Raysh Weiss

Rabbi Raysh Weiss PhD is the Rabbi of Congregation Beth El of Bucks County and is married to fellow rabbi and musician Jonah Rank, and they enjoy davening and dreaming with their two extraordinary kids.

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