As we anxiously await good news, the return of all the hostages, and a stable and flourishing democracy to actualize, let us a remember to believe that one day our descendants will praise our efforts and will look to us from a place of strength, love, and security.
Moshe’s Song:
I’m not quite sure what I deserve
No burning bush can make me a man of words
V’hayn Lo Yaminu li (they won’t believe in me)
That You’ll take us to the land flowing with milk and honey!
אֲנִי מַאֲמִין בֶּאֱמוּנָה שְׁלֵמָה בְּבִיאַת הַמָּשִֽׁיחַ, אֲנִי מַאֲמִין
Ani Ma’amin, B’emunah Shelayma, Bivee’at HaMoshiach
(I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah, and, though it might tarry, I will wait daily for it’s coming.)
They’ve been trying to get ahold of You!
four hundred years, Now lost and so confused!
It’s must be easy, for you to split the sea, but not me
and not for us to who were supposed to be
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What does it mean to be biblically woke? To dream awake and to keep are eyes wide open for a dream manifested into reality.
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Is Judaism particular or universal? The answer is yes!
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Sometimes in order to sing my most authentic song, I need to hold on to what I believe, and what I dream about. Sometimes I need to let go, not let my fears get a hold of me, and stand my ground. We should be blessed!
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In a world full of harshness and rigidity, let us remember Judaism’s 13 attributes of mercy and compassion; the mantra of Yom Kippur, and as Nachmanidies writes, the traits of one who is focused on self growth/Teshuva (return), all found in the Torah portion we just read in Exodus 34:6-7
יְהוָה יְהוָה, אֵל רַחוּם וְחַנּוּן—אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם, וְרַב-חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת. נֹצֵר חֶסֶד לָאֲלָפִים, נֹשֵׂא עָוֺן וָפֶשַׁע וְחַטָּאָה; וְנַקֵּה,
HaShem, HaShed, God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth. Keeper of mercy through all generations, forgiving of mistakes, bad choices, and mishaps.
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131 days of grief, mourning, hope and resolve, and thousands of years of longing for full restoration of Jerusalem as the Capitol of Peace. I sing my English song of Zion, building on David, King of Israel.
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, we also wept when we remembered Zion. On willows in its midst we hung our harps. For there our captors asked us for words of song, and our tormentors poked at us and asked: “Sing for us of the song of Zion.” (we replied) “How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].”
—Psalms 137
עַל נַהֲרוֹת בָּבֶל שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִינוּ בְּזָכְרֵנוּ אֶת־צִיּוֹן: עַל־עֲרָבִים בְּתוֹכָהּ תָּלִינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵינוּ: כִּי שָׁם שְׁאֵלוּנוּ שׁוֹבֵינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁיר וְתוֹלָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה שִׁירוּ לָנוּ מִשִּׁיר צִיּוֹן: אֵיךְ נָשִׁיר אֶת־שִׁיר־ה’ עַל אַדְמַת נֵכָר: אִם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם תִּשְׁכַּח
יְמִינִי
By the rivers
Waters so bitter
There we mourned who died.
Exiled families
Wandering lonely
As we remembered our lives.
Our harps were tattered we couldn’t play
Our world was shattered what could we say?
Zion is hostage - so much is lost
We won’t be safe from all this hate, and yeah, that’s what exile cost!
How can we sing HaShem’s song,
on a land well never call home?
Eem Eshkachech Yerushalayim
What you mean to me: Tishkah Yimini!
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