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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Founded 2002, T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights - North America) is a multi-denominational rabbinical organization dedicated to giving voice to the tradition of human rights in Judaism.
After the Aliyot | Slavery & Captivity | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | 🇺🇸 Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st) | Elections & Voting | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Magid | 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel) | Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ | Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag | Planting | Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation | Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty | 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar) | 🇮🇱 Yom haNətiōt (Planting Day)
116th Congress | 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests | 45th President of the United States | activism | על חטא Al Ḥeyt | all inhabitants | civic prayers | communal confession | community organizing | confession | democracy | ecumenical prayers | English vernacular prayer | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | Freedom | haggadah supplements | Hebrew translation | human trafficking | Immigration policy of Donald Trump | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Liberal Zionist Prayers | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | מי שברך mi sheberakh | Needing Translation (into Hebrew) | Needing Proofreading | Needing Vocalization | North America | North American Jewry | Progressive Zionism | slavery | social justice | תחינות teḥinot | the Occupation | torture | Trump administration family separation policy | צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof | United States | United States General Election 2016 | United States Immigration Policy | וידוי vidui | voting | ישראל Yisrael | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
תפילה להצבעה | A Prayer on Voting, by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson (T’ruah 2016)
Contributed on: 07 Nov 2016 by T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights | Lev Meirowitz Nelson | ❧
On Tuesday, we go to the polls in a momentous election that for many of us has generated a combination of anxiety, excitement, fear, and confusion. We offer you this prayer, which you can recite this Shabbat, before you vote, or while you are waiting for returns. . . .
