Tips for Jewish Living: Archive

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Compassion and Mercy and Peace

By Sabena Stark

There are few Jewish prayers more moving and yet more provocative to modern sensibilities than the High Holy Days appeal, Avinu Malkeynu. The entreaty that is the essence of this prayer evokes at once a fearsome vision of the Holy One as stern judge and ruler and our most trusted Source of Life. Its traditional musical setting is both simple and poignant. It is a song that emerges from my earliest memories of Jewish communal offerings.

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