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Rabbi Katy Allen

All These I Remember

Rabbi Katy Allen


Written for Yom Kippur 5785, observed at Nobscot Scout Reservation, Sudbury, MA

Inspired by Eileh Ezkarah: These I Remember by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman


All these I remember and my heart breaks open with tears:

The millions of adults, children, and babies throughout history

who died because they were Jews

from Crusades to pogroms to the Shoah to Kfar Aza and Nirim,

together with so many others who died because of who they were,

from first peoples of this Nipmuc land on which we pray

to those of every continent and island across this vast planet


All these I remember and my heart breaks open with tears:

All those frontline peoples of inner cities and small island nations,

brown skinned people in massive monsoon floodplains

children and babies caught in raging wildfire or ongoing drought

elders and poor considered expendable

in deed if not in word,

all dead and dying from the ravages of climate chaos.


All these I remember and my heart breaks open with tears:

The millions of adults, children, and babies blown apart

by relentless warfare, fighting over land and territory

from Libya to Ukraine and Gaza to Columbia

and countless other countries,


All these I remember and my heart breaks open with tears:

Everywhere that beloved human beings are made faceless and inhuman

sacrificed to forces of greed, neglect, abandonment and blindness,

martyred by fear and hatred,

by looking the other way and desiring comfort,

by imagining of others as Other;

all these I remember and my heart breaks open with tears.


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