Jews need to be together right now 🕍✡️

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Jews need to be together right now.

With the synagogue attack in West Bloomfield, where a vehicle ramming and shooting targeted a Jewish space, and with other attacks on synagogues including in Toronto, it is clear what these people are trying to do. A synagogue is called a Beit Knesset, a house of gathering. The goal of these attacks is to make Jews feel that they don’t belong there. To make us feel intimidated, isolated, and alone.

Of course every community must make the security decisions needed to protect their families and their institutions. Safety matters.

But spiritually our response must be the opposite of what they want. We respond by being a Beit Knesset. By gathering together. By showing up. By refusing to let fear break Jewish community.

A minyan is ten Jews gathered together, and our sages teach that when Jews gather and pray, the Shechina, the Divine Presence, is with them.

Shabbat Shalom.

Hashem should protect Jews everywhere.

In Israel and across the diaspora.

May our communities continue to gather with warmth, strength, and faith.

#AmYisraelChai #Synagogue #Shuls #JewishCommunity #ShabbatShalom

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