At this moment of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice to fulfill the most sacred obligation in Jewish tradition – pikuach nefesh, saving a life

Elul 20

Writing prompt: 

Ask God, What were you thinking?!

Write the reply. 

Ask yourself, how am I called to respond? 

Write the reply.

From the biblical ancestors on, our tradition depicts the human-Divine relationship as one in which both parties challenge, dissent, despair, desire, love, question, and thus grow in relationship to each other. Today’s prompt invites us into that ongoing process.


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