Dear 5782,
Welcome! Or, perhaps it is YOU welcoming US.
Your older sibling 5781 tried hard to make a difference. Perhaps the greatest effect of 5781 was revealing how YOU can help us now.
Please remind us that we are all in this together, and that we survive and thrive best when we act with responsibility towards our fellow human beings and the world, rather than focusing on personal rights that might cause harm to someone else.
Teach us that the Creator fashioned us so that we could solve our own problems, preserve our health, prescribe measures and medications that can save lives, and gain new knowledge, based on the potential for ingenuity embedded in us, through scientific research and not through online rumor and heresay.
Penetrate into the souls of leaders who believe that their only lot in life is only to impose their ideology, beliefs and power upon others, not in the realm of preserving health and life, but for the purpose of self-perpetuation of their status and position as overlords, accomplished by force and violence.
Guide us towards love and tenderness towards the oppressed, the downtrodden, people in need of support and assistance, those who are grieving the loss of loved ones, and those who crave the connection that has eluded us over 20 months facing a silent enemy.
Do call out those who say that our Maker cannot see us through the masks we wear to keep ourselves safe. You certainly know that the Eternal One can see into us even deeper than that.
Lead us to some semblance of peaceful coexistence that will make the divisions that have estranged us for too long seem like a distant memory.
We are counting on you, 5782.
I suppose, you are counting on us, too.
I, for one, am ready.
L’shalom,
Rabbi Larry K.
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