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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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