Rabbi Hannah Spiro
Hill Havurah
Washington, DC
Date of Prayer: 09/03/2024
One Minute Speech Given in Recognition of the Guest Chaplain:
Opening Prayer Given by the Guest Chaplain:
Divine judge, source of all life, may this grief we feel, this rage we feel each time a beautiful young soul is taken, serve some purpose.
Not the cruelty of what they went through, not their senseless deaths––for these horrors, there is no possible silver lining.
But may our grief, our rage, our intrusive thoughts get us somewhere that we need to be: to an insistence that the killing ends; to a clarity that peace and justice must go hand in hand.
As it says in Psalm 85: ‘‘Loving kindness and truth will meet; justice and peace will kiss.''
May every single person on this sacred Earth live to see that day.
And let us say, amen.
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