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Categories: 🇺🇸 United States of America, Elections & Voting
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Excerpt: The invocation offered by Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR (Los Angeles, California) on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, 20 August 2024. Her invocation was offered together with that of Imam Dr. Talib M. Shareef of The Nation's Mosque (Washington, DC). . . .
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We gather this week for holy work:
together, we are crafting a redemption story for America. |
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As a rabbi,
I know something about redemption stories. My faith is sustained by the story of a people, beleaguered and bereft, traversing the desert on a journey from degradation to dignity, darkness to light. |
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Holy One,
help us write America’s redemption story— a story of ceaseless striving toward a true multiracial democracy, rooted in equal justice, where every person is an image of God— unique, mighty, and worthy of love. |
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In this story,
politics is not a vehicle for repression, bigotry, or personal profit, but instead a call to solidarity and service. |
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This story counters extremism
with capaciousness and compassion. It is rooted in the knowledge that our most sacred responsibility is to honor one another’s humanity. |
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This story rejects the inevitability
of violence and war, affirming that every one of us— Muslim, Jew, Christian, Black, white, Latino, AAPI,[1] Asian American and Pacific Islanders queer and straight, Israeli and Palestinian — deserves to live in dignity and peace. |
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Some say this story is impossible,
but the God of redemption specializes in the impossible— and so must we. |
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May we be guided always
by hope, joy, and a fierce moral imagination. Amen. |
This is the invocation offered by Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR (Los Angeles, California) on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday, 20 August 2024. Her invocation was offered together with that of Imam Dr. Talib M. Shareef of The Nation’s Mosque (Washington, DC).
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Title: Invocation – Democratic National Convention 2024 (Sharon Brous, 20 August 2024)
Caption: Invocation - Democratic National Convention 2024 (Sharon Brous, 20 August 2024)