#kaddishforblacklives

[colina99]

Creator of life, source of compassion. Your breath remains the source of our spirit, even as too many of us cry out that we cannot breathe. Lovingly created in your image, the color or our bodies has imperiled our lives. Black lives are commodified, yet devalued, imitated but feared, exhibited but not seen. Black lives have been pursued by hatred, abandoned by indifference and betrayed by complacency. Black lives have been lost to the violence of the vigilante, the cruelty of the marketplace and the silence of the comfortable. We understand that Black lives are sacred, inherently valuable, and irreplaceable. We know that to oppress the body of the human, is to break the heart of the divine. We yearn for the day when the bent will stand for straight. We pray that the hearts of our country will soften to the pain endured for centuries. We will do the work to bind up the wounds, to heal the shattered hearts, to break the yoke of oppression. As the beauty of the heavens is revealed to us each day, may each day reveal to us the beauty of our common humanity. Amen. #KaddishForBlackLives #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #ShabbatShalom #Salaam #Peace #Humanity #Justice #Reckoning #ResistanceIsHoly #DemocracyWorksIfYouWorkIt (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBqXZrjh8OB/?igshid=1xjhrf6f6k008

[lindablatt]

A message from @jewishmultiracialnetwor: . . This Friday night, Shabbat coincides with Juneteenth, the commemoration of the official ending of mass enslavement of African Americans. In observance of this important day, and in remembrance of the countless African Americans who have been victimized and killed by ongoing racism, we are lifting up the suggestion of Black Jewish journalist Robin Washington and we are asking our friends and allies in the Jewish community—Jews of Color and White Jews, Sephardic and Mizrachi and Ashkenazi, religious and secular, in private or on Zoom—to recite a Kaddish for Black Lives during this Shabbat. . . Jewish Multiracial Network has created a special “Black Lives Kaddish” to reflect on this moment. Depending on your practice, you may choose to recite it along with the traditional Kaddish or, after candlelighting, join us in reciting Psalm 31 (traditionally said to ward off hatred) on this special Juneteenth Shabbat. We ask that you share this ask with your networks, friends and contacts throughout the Jewish Community so we may all come together to give appropriate honor to those we have lost. May their memories be a blessing. . . #kaddish #KaddishforBlackLives #becausejewscomeinallcolors #DefendALLBlackLives #AmplifiedMelanatedVoices #Juneteenth #Shabbat #shabbatshalom #jewsofcolor #JOC #whitejews #Ashkenazi #Sephardic #Mizrachi #Secular #Religious #OneLove #spreadlove #UnitedWeStand https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgVZVxBpPJ/?igshid=17zgnw154jubh