IT'S HOLIDAY TIME
We at The Shirt Box are thankful for
the things we have: homes, families,
and good health. Others, however,
are less fortunate.
At The
Shirt Box
Please, - help us to express our gratitude
by visiting The Shirt Box between
November 20th and December 3rd. During
the two week period, we will donate
$2.50 for every $50 purchase to one of
three select charities that help
those less fortunate:
is followed by "created," and
finally the name of God. In
the experience of divinity
first come the predicates of
the blessing, then the name of
God.
The motzi depends upon a
collabciration between non-
human and human nature.
The motzi is not recited over
sheaves of wheat. The bless-
ing over the product to be con-
sumed embraces human and
and non-human energies that
express godliness. Godliness
is not separated from my
world. It does not appear as a
hand from another realm out-
side this world. Our farmer
feels. no alienation from the
field nor the worshiper
estrangement from the
benediction.
Prayer must be unpacked so
that the marvelous inter-
dependence of _creativity is
acknowledged. To pray with-
out self-reference, to_pray for
things to be done without our
intervention is no act of piety.
To petition with folded arms
mimics a magic that accom-
plishes nothing by human
effort and everything by
formula. In authentic prayer,
intervention, care, concern,
activity are not indolently
shifted to Another. It is not a
slumbering God who needs to
be awakened by our prayers.
It is we who must be aroused.
And that is why the preferred
form of Jewish prayers is with
the community, with the mi-
nyan that possesses within it
the sanctifying power to
transform our world. God
hears only when we hear, God
is moved only when we are
moved, God answers only
when we respond. It is the
"we" who are addressed by
the Shma.
Prayer directs our minds
and hearts to the potential-
ities for good to be actualized
within us, between us, and
between us and our environ-
ment. If I pray to God to make
peace upon earth as He does
in Heaven, the prayer
includes me and my com-
munity as peace makers. If I
pray God to heal the sick, the
prayers include me and my
community as healers. For a
community to pray for health
and violate the ethics of
ecology is to mock prayers. To
pray for health and yet to
smoke is amoral contradic-
tion. It is a vain prayer that
segregates aspiration from
behavior.
Authentic prayer does not
isolate godliness - from
humanity. ❑
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