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‘We Are Linked Arm-in-Arm’

On Oct. 7, Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek Rabbi Aaron Starr welcomed 
more than 4,000 people at a memorial 
event on the anniversary of the Hamas 
pogrom the year before. What follows 
are his remarks in full. For the story 
about the event, please see page 8.
O

n behalf of the 
Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek family, welcome to 
our sacred home and thank you for 
being here. I would like to extend our 
gratitude to the Jewish 
Federation of Detroit, 
to the Michigan Board 
of Rabbis and to the 
Michigan Board of 
Cantors for organizing 
tonight’s event. We 
welcome and thank the 
elected officials joining 
us this evening, and I would like to 
acknowledge as well as my rabbinic 
and cantorial colleagues whose 
leadership over the last year and 
every year strengthens the Jewish 
People and brings healing to our 

community.
One year ago, we gathered in this 
sacred space to try to make sense 
of Shabbat HaShachor, Oct. 7: the 
terrible pogrom perpetrated against 
our brothers and sisters in Israel. We 
continue to try to process the loss of 
life and the suffering inflicted against 
us. We continue to worry desperately 
about the remaining hostages, and 
we worry about our family who con-
tinues to be under attack. 
We worry for Israel’s soldiers who, 
despite their yearning for peace, must 
defend our people, our state, and our 
land. May God be with them, with 
their families and with all the citizens 
of the Jewish state. May God comfort 
the citizens of Israel, and may God 
spread over them a Sukkat Shalom — 
a canopy of peace and of healing. 
Here we are now, one year 
later, still sad and angry, but also 
incredibly emboldened. In addition 
to Israel’s war of self-defense, we’ve 
responded to our enemies’ senseless 
hatred by performing countless 
acts of unyielding love. And, as we 

read in Exodus, “But the more [the 
Israelites] were oppressed, the more 
they grew …”
We are now an even stronger 
Jewish Detroit family that has 
entered these Shaarey Zedek, these 
Gates of Righteousness, to become all 
of us a Beth El and Beth Ahm; we are 
an Adat Shalom in a Beth Shalom.
In that we are B’nai Moshe, 
Shomrei Emunah, and Partners in 
Torah, we summon the Aish of our 
Etz Chayim and Keter Torah, so that, 
with the sacred spirit of Chabad and 
with a Kol Ami, we can together sing 
a Shir Shalom and a Shir Tikvah.
Knowing that Emanu-El, God is 
with us, and that we are linked arm-
in-arm with Jews all over the world, 
we are today — all of us — B’nai 
Israel and Young Israel and Temple 
Israel. On this day of mourning, of 
resilience, and of unity, we are Am 
Echad im Lev Echad: one people with 
one heart. Jewish Detroit stands with 
Israel. Am Yisrael Chai!
Our task this evening is to 
remember those murdered, to lift 

up those taken hostage, and to stand 
proud at the remarkable resilience 
of Israel, Israelis and Jews around 
the world. Our task is to plead with 
God to bring healing and our task 
this evening is to care for each other, 
to care for our Israeli brothers and 
sisters, to care what happened one 
year ago and in this last year, and to 
care what will happen tomorrow.
Our task is to love. On this Oct. 
7, one year later, we stand together, 
Am Echad im Lev Echad: one people 
with one heart. We stand together to 
proclaim Am Yisrael Chai.
In this week between Rosh 
Hashanah and Yom Kippur, allow 
me also to quote from Psalm 27, 
“Kavei el-Hashem, chazak v’ya-amatz 
libecha. V’kavei el Hashem: Have 
hope in the Eternal; be strong and of 
good courage! Hope in the Eternal!” 
Our task tonight is also to remain 
hopeful that our children will inherit 
a world of peace, of love, and of 
justice, and that Israel will be a 
secure, Jewish and democratic state, 
a beacon of light to the world. 

Rabbi Aaron 
Starr

ONE YEAR AFTERWARD

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