After a hard week where hatred brutally showed itself in Charlottesville and Barcelona, I offer our response: Rabbi Menachem Creditor singing his beautiful song, Olam Chesed Yibaneh. We will build this world with love.
Shabbat Shalom
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Olam Chesed Yibaneh- Thoughts on the Tragedy in Brussels
The terror and tragedy of events in Brussels today requires that we pause and reflect on the horror and pray for those who were injured or killed. I have had Rabbi Menachem Creditor’s rendition of Psalm 89 playing over and over in my head in an attempt to reassure myself that we will get through this too.
Rabbi Creditor adapted a phrase from Psalm 89, Olam Chesed Yibaneh, in response to the birth of his daughter in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. He translates the line as: “You will build this world with love.”
We are charged, or maybe implored, to engage in the creating of a place where we care for each other, embracing each other instead of permitting hate or fear to separate each other.
Cain Yehi Ratzon, May this be God’s