A Jerusalem Prayer, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

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”וְלִירוּשָׁלַֽיִם עִירְ֒ךָ בְּרַחֲמִים תָּשׁוּב וְתִשְׁכּוֹן בְּתוֹכָהּ כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבַּֽרְתָּ וּבְנֵה אוֹתָהּ בְּקָרוֹב בְּיָמֵֽינוּ בִּנְיַן עוֹלָם…“	“And to Jerusalem Your city return in mercy, and dwell therein as You have said; build it soon, in our days, in a lasting structure…”
	As I head Eastward, Holy One, and pause for prayer in an airport chapel, one of several earthly portals into awareness of You, I wonder:
	Have we been capitalizing certain words to our own detriment? Perhaps the reflective act of prayer might one day render this Jerusalem paragraph entirely lowercase, human, claiming as our own the obligation too often outsourced to You:
	to the heart of jerusalem you must return with a merciful heart. when you arrive, build something eternally worthy, as you always say you will. do it today.
	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