One such prayer we offer, below, as an interpretive translation of the Jewish Mourners Kaddish -- specially designed to mourn those who suffer and die from war, violence, and terrorism -- among them, the dead of Charleston, slain as an act of explicit racist terrorism.
There are two others. One is the solemn, determined anthem of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, facing the death of civil-rights workers at the hands of white Southern terrorists. It is especially poignant and appropriate now.
The other is "Lift every voice and sing," the poetic song that has been called "the Negro National Anthem." Like the Kaddish, it affirms life and hope in the midst of grief.
Shalom, salaam, peace, Earth!--- Arthur
MOURNERS' KADDISH FOR ALL
WHO SUFFER AND DIE IN TIME OF WAR & TERROR
Susie Jackson; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton;
DePayne Doctor; Ethel Lance;
Tywanza Sanders; Cynthia Hurd;
Clementa Pinckney;
Daniel Simmons Sr.; Myra Thompson.
Yitgadal V'yit'kadash Shmei Rabah --
May Your Great Name, through our own expanding awareness and our fuller action, lift You and us to become still higher and more holy.
For Your Great Name weaves together all the names of all the beings in the universe, among them our own names -- and the names of those who have touched our lives deeply though we can no longer touch them -- (Cong: Amein)
--- Throughout the world that You have offered us, a world of majestic peaceful order that gives life through time and through eternity ---- And let's say, Amein
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