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At the presence of the LORD, for God is coming, for God is coming to rule the earth; God will rule the world justly, and its peoples in faithfulness. לִפְנֵי ה' כִּי בָא כִּי בָא לִשְׁפֹּט הָאָרֶץ יִשְׁפֹּט תֵּבֵל בְּצֶדֶק וְעַמִּים בֶּאֱמוּנָתוֹ:
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I have been young and am now old, but I have never seen a righteous one abandoned, nor their children begging for bread. [JPS translation Edited for gender neutrality] נַעַר הָיִיתִי גַּם זָקַנְתִּי וְלֹא רָאִיתִי צַדִּיק נֶעֱזָב וְזַרְעוֹ מְבַקֶּשׁ לָחֶם
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1) Sing to Adonai a new song, sing to Adonai, all the earth. א) שִׁירוּ לַה' שִׁיר חָדָשׁ שִׁירוּ לַה' כָּל הָאָרֶץ:
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God of Compassion, You commanded us through Your Torah saying, “You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless the LORD your God.” But in Your world of bounty there are those who are trapped in the darkness of hunger. We are not so arrogant and stiff-necked to say before You that we have fulfilled the mitzvah of feeding the hungry and helping You to deliver them from the darkness to the light. Because we have sinned, scoffed, and oppressed. For the sin of closing our eyes to those who are malnourished.
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The Horn of Africa is currently experiencing its
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Prayer is our greatest privilege. To pray is to stake our very existence, our right to live, on the truth and on the supreme importance of that which we pray for. Prayer, then, is radical commitment, a dangerous involvement in the life of God. In such awareness we pray…We do not stand alone. Millions of Americans, millions of people all over the world are with us. At this moment, praying for peace in Vietnam, we are spiritually Vietnamese. Their agony is our affliction, their hope is our commitment. God is present wherever men are afflicted. Where is God present now?
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O Lord, we confess our sins, we are ashamed of the inadequacy of our anguish, of how faint and slight is our mercy. We are a generation that has lost its capacity for outrage. We must continue to remind ourselves that in a free society all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.
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Jewish tradition interprets the words that Israel uttered at Sinai, "all that the Lord has spoken, we shall do and we shall hear" (Exodus 24:7), as a promise to fulfill his commands even before hearing them, as the precedence of faith over knowledge. When at Sinai Israel said we shall do and we shall hear (instead of saying, we shall hear and we shall do), a heavenly voice went forth and exclaimed, "Who has revealed to my children this mystery, which the ministering angels enact, to fulfill His word before they hear the voice."
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Prayer takes the mind out of the narrowness of self-interest, and enables us to see the world in the mirror of the holy.
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Blessed are you, Lord, our God, Ruler of the universe, who sanctifies us through imperative, and commands us to immerse ourselves in words of wisdom. Please make sweet, Lord our God, the words of our learning here together in our mouths and the mouths of all your people, so that we and our children and all children will immerse ourselves in this learning and come to internalize our responsibilities. 
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