A Prayer for the New Year (5781), by Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=33592
open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Date: 2020-09-14
Last Updated: 2025-03-29
Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, North America, Prayers for the New Year, United States, weariness, תקון tiqqun
Excerpt: "A Prayer for the New Year (5781)" was first published by Rabbi Menachem Creditor online at his Facebook Page and shared with the Open Siddur Project through our Facebook discussion group. . . .
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Dear God,
May we learn/remember how
to open up our hearts and minds and souls.
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May we reclaim the headlines
with the shocking good we’ll do.
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May our children inherit some good decisions
we’ll make to offset our countless mistakes.
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May we take really good care
of each other and heal this fragile world.
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Amen.
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“A Prayer for the New Year (5781)” was first published by Rabbi Menachem Creditor online at his Facebook Page and shared with the Open Siddur Project through our Facebook discussion group.
Contributor: Menachem Creditor
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Name: Menachem Creditor
Bio: 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.
Website: http://rabbicreditor.blogspot.com
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/menachem-creditor
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