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The memories of all creatures are known to You.
(High Holiday Mahzor)
My Memory
fails me
Things happened.
We both experienced them. You saw them your way—
colored by experiences in your past, or by resentment or impatience.
I saw them my way— colored by fear, by pride, by the fact that I am myself and not you.
So our memories of what happened were very different from the start.
And then, before we knew it, memories hardened into myths and myths into dogma.
Now we find ourselves divided. We stare across the chasm, but we don't see each other.
Wife, Husband • Child • Parent • Friend
Race • Nation • Religious Group
I'm tired of being alone on my side of
the chasm. I'm using up so much
energy fearing and resenting you.
Sometimes I wish you and I could crack
the dogma, peel away the mythology,
and trade memories.
What would it be like if we could see
each other's pictures of the history we share?
If we could see each other?
What we need here, you and I, is a little
humility and a lot of house-cleaning.
- Humility: to say, "Only God sees
history whole and knows the whole truth.
All I have is my perception. It's valid, it's
precious, but it's fragmentary. Maybe I ought
to try seeing as God sees, from all the angles."
Housecleaning: Memory is selective,
and I'm carrying around years
of slanted, narrow memories.
I can't see past them.
It must be the same for you.
What we need to do is let some of them go.
Trade a few. Listen.
Maybe, if I ask you how things look to you,
between us we'll see something
we never saw before.
We wish for all humanity a year of broadened vision and shared perspectives.
TheJewish TheologicalSeminary of America
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Short Hills, NJ
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Scarsdale. NY
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Oyster Bay. NY
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Ncw York. NY
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Fore. Hills, NY
DORIS LESLIE BLAU, New York. NY
TIRE BWMBERG FAMILY, IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM T BLUMBERG. Scarsdale. NY
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New York. NY
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New York. NY
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Palm Beach. FL
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Chicago. IL
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New Castle, DE
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Palm Beach. FL
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Chevy Chase. MD
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Harrison. NY
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Woodmcre, NY
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White Plains. NY
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Scarsdale. NY
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