Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Mipnei Darchay Shalom: For the Sake of the Ways of Peace
Reflections on Social Issues and World Events
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| A PRAYER FOR ISRAEL, FOR THE INNOCENTS, FOR PEACE July 2006 |
Ribono Shel Olam, Master of the Universe, we pour our hearts out to you in anguish for
the suffering of all your children. We cry to You Whose tears fall for us. We cry out in
reflexive pain for attacks upon our own people Israel, feeling as one body the ache in any
part of our being. Protect our people upon our Land, calm and soothe them, return our
captives, and let terror be no more. Help us to remember that we are one people, for all
of our different ways of response. Let not the wanton hatred that brought down the walls
of Your House divide us yet again from each other and from You. Know that our hearts
break for the suffering of the innocents who bear the wrath born of our own pain and fear.
Yearning for surcease from terror, we lash out in destructive fury. Open our eyes to the
illusions of military might, to see in the rising plumes of so much smoke the certain rise of
hate that will divide for generations more your children from each other, and bring no
peace. Of those who really are children, in all the lands of war, protect them please, their
fragile bodies and tender souls like flowers bending in the storm. Ease their parents’ fear
and give them reason to hope, that in whatever of Your languages they speak, they may
find words with which to comfort their children. Please protect and quickly bring home our
soldiers, and those of every flag, and wake us from the strangest dream to see swords
and guns and uniforms scattered on the ground. From the whirlwind of war’s futility, guide
us to the wisdom of another way. For the sake of the ways of peace, help us all to clothe
in humility our words to each other and to You. And let us say, Amen.
Rabbi Victor Hillel Reinstein
Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue
Jamaica Plain, MA
the suffering of all your children. We cry to You Whose tears fall for us. We cry out in
reflexive pain for attacks upon our own people Israel, feeling as one body the ache in any
part of our being. Protect our people upon our Land, calm and soothe them, return our
captives, and let terror be no more. Help us to remember that we are one people, for all
of our different ways of response. Let not the wanton hatred that brought down the walls
of Your House divide us yet again from each other and from You. Know that our hearts
break for the suffering of the innocents who bear the wrath born of our own pain and fear.
Yearning for surcease from terror, we lash out in destructive fury. Open our eyes to the
illusions of military might, to see in the rising plumes of so much smoke the certain rise of
hate that will divide for generations more your children from each other, and bring no
peace. Of those who really are children, in all the lands of war, protect them please, their
fragile bodies and tender souls like flowers bending in the storm. Ease their parents’ fear
and give them reason to hope, that in whatever of Your languages they speak, they may
find words with which to comfort their children. Please protect and quickly bring home our
soldiers, and those of every flag, and wake us from the strangest dream to see swords
and guns and uniforms scattered on the ground. From the whirlwind of war’s futility, guide
us to the wisdom of another way. For the sake of the ways of peace, help us all to clothe
in humility our words to each other and to You. And let us say, Amen.
Rabbi Victor Hillel Reinstein
Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue
Jamaica Plain, MA
| Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue 43 Lochstead Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 |