Dear All,
This Monday, 7 October 2024, I took part in a Masorti-wide commemoration of last year’s vicious attacks. I was asked to read Psalm 121, perhaps more familiar to us as esa einai. The psalm talks of absolute faith in G-d’s protection. It talks of a G-d who never sleeps and never slumbers; a G-d who always looks out for us, at day and at night.
Esa Einai
I turn my eyes to the mountains; from where will my help come?
My help comes from Adonai, maker of heaven and earth.
G-d will not let your foot give way; your guardian will not slumber;
See, the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps!
Adonai is your guardian, Adonai is your protection at your right hand.
By day the sun will not strike you, nor the moon by night.
Adonai will guard you from all harm; G-d will guard your life.
Adonai will guard your going and coming, now and forever.
May our community, all of Israel, and all of G-d’s people come to feel that sense of security, that feeling of safety, bimhera ve’yameinu – speedily and within our days. And may we take a sense of hope and security into Yom Kippur and the new year.
G’mar chatimah tovah – may we be sealed in the Book of Life.
Tim
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