I mean. What the actual.

That might have been the best tribal council ever. Can’t wait to hear your take on it!

How can we ensure that life is valued and protected in our communities, our country and throughout our fragile world? #parashapoetryproject #sacredwriting #5785goals #mishpatim #chooselife #prochoice

I am proud to be part of a people that values life so highly that we cling to hope even when it should have been long lost. I fear deeply for a world in which less and less of our leaders seem to value life at all - other than their own. (Continued in next comment)

Heartbreaking but not surprising 💔

How can communities ensure that their leaders have the support they need so that they don’t feel crushed by the weight of leadership? #torahthoughts #parashaponderings with thanks to @steinsaltzcenter app for making daily studies so easy!

How often do we miss the opportunity to educate or to comfort or to show compassion because we are judging from our own place of experience and privilege? Let’s learn from Moses’ mistake here. Let’s do better.

Still others may have been acting from a place of trauma due to previous experiences of food insecurity. And yet Moses gets angry with them. How often do we jump to anger from assumptions? How often do we forget to find out why someone has acted counter to our expectations? (Cont to next comment)

Now can you please build something to replace Facebook and Insta?

Time to get our feet praying again.

Is there something tangible people can do? I’m not in America but I can help spread recommended action items.

We must instead commit to the vision we have for the future and step boldly toward it, even if there is a wide wilderness of uncertainty between here and there.

How can we embrace the truth of our past and draw strength and learning of it to help us cope with and navigate the current moment? Romanticizing a past we cannot return to does not help us. (Continue to next comment)

They quickly forget their own desperate cries for redemption from slavery now that they have to take responsibility for their own survival. How true is this in our own lives? In what ways to we rewrite their past to escape the frightening realities or struggles of the present? (Cont to next comment)

These are the words we sing as we attain freedom - an acknowledgment that with it, comes the responsibility to accept our potential, and to use our freedom to sustain and not destroy. #chooselife

We are taught that we are created in Gods image, which means we too have the potential to be life-sustaining (like breath) or life-destroying.

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