March 26, 2010

This is a special Passover edition, so there will not be an organization.

Instead, I'd like to focus on the growing problem of poverty in our country. Let us not forget all of the people who are suffering, because once, we were slaves in Egypt, struggling to be free of poverty and despair.


Include this prayer in your Seder:

Open our eyes, Lord, so that we see the suffering of the poor; open our ears so that we hear their cries. Remove the calluses from our hearts so that we may pursue the mitzvah of tzedakah more carefully than all others; instill wisdom and courage within us so that we may empower those living in poverty. Strengthen their hands so that they not be dependent on the gifts or loans of other people, but only on Your full, open, brimming, and generous hand. Amen, and so may it be Your will.

~Rabbi Shai Held