Look how our pious ones have been lost
Oh Mighty Redeemer, deliver us for your sake
See how our strength has left us
Look how our pious ones have been lost
So that there is no one to pray for us
~
From Slichot For Thursday of Aseret Yemei Teshuvah
(Artscroll translation, page 781)
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 9:01 AM
3 Comments:
This is surely just my own ignorance, but I was startled by the phrase, "Oh Mighty Redeemer". I had assumed "Redeemer" was a Christian thing.
Nice prayers; food for thought.
Thanks for the comment Anne.
Longing for redemption and seeing G-d as our Redeemer are essentials of Jewish belief.
There's a scene I love - and may have written about somewhere on the blog in the past - from A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Francie Nolan asks her mother what the difference is between Catholics and Jews. Her mother says succinctly that Catholics believe that the Messiah came and will return. Jews, on the other hand, believe that the Messiah has yet to be born.
Francie replies that this explains something she'd always wondered about. She'd noticed that the Irish pregnant women that she passed on the street seemed less happy than the pregnant Jewish women she passed on the street. She says she now understands that the Jewish women are excited because they believe that their child may be be the Messiah, but the Irish women don't think their child will be the Messiah because they believe he was already born.
Hmmm, it is high time I re-read "Tree...". It's been decades. I like the quote, although I'd argue that many Christian parents nowadays seem to feel their baby is "the second coming of the Messiah"! :-)
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