![]() This prayer was originally shared at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station’s 2014 Holocaust Remembrance Service) Ken yehi ratzon – may this be God’s will. Please, oh Holy One, answer our prayers and bring us a world devoid of hatred, filled instead with peace. We pray for the souls of the millions and millions of victims of this brutality we pray that we honor their lives and their memories by observing this day, and by doing everything in our power and beyond to make sure that no such shadow again darkens our world.Ībove all, we pray for shalom-for wholeness and peace-to be in our midst, now and forever. We pray that the lessons we learn from this darkest hour allow all humankind to better itself, and to truly and nobly embody the idea that we are each made in Your image. We pray that the call of evil falls on deaf ears, that those who fight for freedom and justice always prevail, that those who need protection do not become victims. Please, oh Holy One, make manifest our resolve that these horrors remain but memories. We say “never again” and we dedicate ourselves to this principle, to the idea that justice does not allow persecution, that genocide shall not be repeated, and that vigilance is the responsibility of freedom, at all costs. We ask that you strengthen our will, that you help us to ensure that the world does not again see such monstrosities. Please, oh Holy One, amplify our ability to remember. As tales of the atrocities are shared, as we re-encounter the unthinkable, we ask that these memories be strengthened and never fade, in the hope that those who remember the mistakes of the past will not repeat them. We ask that you help us to forever remember the stories we hear. Please, oh Holy One, be gentle with our souls. We ask for your presence in our midst for healing, light, and love to soothe and ease our pain, as we commemorate the horrors that were committed not long ago. We ask you to soothe our souls, to amplify our memories, to strengthen our resolve, and to hear our prayers. On this most solemn of occasions, we open our hearts, minds, and souls to you.Īs we remember the six million, the eleven million, the indifference, and the evil Īs we honor the heroes, the martyrs, the survivors, and the victims Ribbono shel Olam – Master of the Universe: That’s how we can not only pause to remember a tragedy once a year, but act on the lessons we’ve learned from it every day”.Ī Prayer for Yom Hashoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day ![]() So it’s up to us to make a different choice-to choose empathy over apathy to sow seeds of hope rather than hate to embrace our shared humanity, no matter how we worship, what we look like, who we love, or where our families came from. And today, in our world of encroaching division and calcifying bubbles, we’ve seen once again the swiftness with which that choice-that failure to recognize ourselves in one another-can accelerate into violence. It’s a sadly familiar choice, one that we’ve seen generation after generation. Because before the camps and the brownshirts, before the consolidation of political power, before millions of lives were extinguished, there were simply people, not altogether different from any of us, who chose to see their neighbors as different, as other, as something less. It was a different world then, we can tell ourselves-another place, another time.įully grappling with the reality of the Holocaust, though, isn’t so simple. The photos are grainy now, dusty artifacts from another era. It’s easy, on a day like this, to reflect at something of a distance. Israel comes to a standstill with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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