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May we enter the Sukkah this year
for the sake of peace; | |
may we find protection and peace
under the fragile leaves of the skhakh; | |
may we savor the fruits and the joy of the holiday
in the name of peace for all peoples; | |
may we imagine a world that is safe enough for everyone
to recline in sukkot, dwellings open to the sky; | |
may there be stars for us and all humanity,
not rocket flares; | |
may there be sukkot,
not bomb shelters; | |
may we leave the Sukkah
ready to create and support peace, justice, and democracy
in the world. |
This prayer by Rabbi Seidenberg was shared via his English newsletter and social media in the days preceding Sukkot 2024.
Rabbi David Seidenberg, founder of NeoHasid.org, teaches text and music, Jewish thought and spirituality, in their own right and in relation to ecology and the environment. With smikhah (ordination) from the Jewish Theological Seminary and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, he has taught at over 100 synagogues, communities, retreats and conferences across North America (and a few in Europe and Israel). Rabbi Seidenberg's teaching empowers learners to become creators of Judaism through deep study and communion with texts and tradition. Areas of specialty include Kabbalah and Ḥasidut, Talmud, davenning, evolution and cosmology, sustainability, Maimonides, Buber, and more. Rabbi Seidenberg has published widely on ecology and Judaism and is the author of Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World (Cambridge University Press, 2015). NeoHasid.org, founded October 2005, was first created by Rabbi David Seidenberg to help folks integrate ḥasidic song, learning, and nusaḥ into their davenning and communities and to explore embodied Torah. It evolved to focus on eco-Torah and to share liturgy that honors our relationship with the Earth and/or expresses gender parity.
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