"Prayer for those Suffering in Japan" offered by Hebrew Union College of Jerusalem
2011年3月23日 21:07 手島 佑郎さん作成
The below is the prayer offered by teachers and students of HUCJ.
the prayer text is followed by transliteration and Hebrew original.
I received it from Rabbi Naamah Kelman, the dean of HUCJ.
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From: Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Subject: Prayer for those Suffering in Japan
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Prayer for those Suffering in Japan
In light of last week's earthquake and tsunami in Japan, we would like to offer the following prayer to support all those who are suffering.
This prayer was originally composed by Rabbi Shai Held in 2004 following the devastating tsunami in South Asia.
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Ruler of Creation, Master of the World
Avinu SheBashamayim, Adon Kol HaMa'asim, Ribon Kol HaOlamim,
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Have mercy on all those who are suffering from the raging waters and the storming waves.
Racheim Al Kol Eileh HaSovlim Min HaMayim HaGo'ashim VeHeGalim HaRo'ashim.
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Have compassion on Your creatures - Look, O Lord, and see their distress;Listen, God, and hear their cries.
Chamol al Ma'asekha - Habitah Adonai, URe'ei Tzaratam;
Ha'azinah, Elohim, UShema Tza'akatam.
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Strengthen the hands of those who would bring relief, comfort the mourners; Heal, please, the wounded.
Chazeik et Yedei HaMatzilim, Nacheim et Ha-Aveilim Refa Na LaPetzuim.
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Grant us wisdom and discernment to know our obligations,and open our hearts so that we may extend our hands to the devastated.
Choneinu Binah VeHaskeil Leida at Chovoteinu, uFetach et Libeinu LeMa'an Noshit Yad el HaNidka'im.
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Bless us so that we may walk in Your ways, "compassionate ones, children of compassionate ones."
Barkheinu Eloheinu VeNeileikh BeDarkekha Rachmanim Benei Rachmanim.
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Grant us the will and the wisdom to prevent future disaster and death;
Tein Banu Ometz VeChokhmah Lema'an Nimna Ason VaMavet;
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Prevent plague from descending upon Your earth, and fulfill Your words,
Mena Mageifah BeOlamekha, VeKayyeim Ma'amerekha:
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"Never again shall there be another floor to destroy the earth."
"VeLo Yihyeh Od Mabul LeShacheit HaAretz."
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Amen. So may it be your will.
Amein, Kein Yehi Ratzon.
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手島 佑郎
During 1963 and 1967 I have been a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Then the city was divided between Israel side and Jordan side by the wall and fence under the same sky. I felt sorrow in the summer of 1965 when I first time visited the Old City via Lebanon because the wall separated the people. In 1968 when I visited Jerusalem there was no wall, I felt happy and visited my Arab friend in the Old City. And nowadays I feel inexpressible sorrows because I see walls and fences here and there in the Holy Land despite the people truly yearn for peace. I believe we have to reward peace for peace and not eye for eye.
JYT
4月26日 18:48
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手島 佑郎
The sages said, "600,000 poeple of Israel gathered at the foot of Mt. Sinai at the giving of Torah. When God toled them the Ten Commandments,there were already 600,000 interpretations of the Torah among the people of Israel because every body understood according to his capacity and inclination."
4月23日 10:55 _
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Dear Tal Yaron,
I sincerely ask you to remain in "Vaahabta et re'eikha kemokh" because your compassion to the Palestinian people is needed. According to the Agaddah, God consulted with Truth (emet) and Compassion (hesed) about the creation of man. He told them how man is good such and such and how evil such and such. Hearing God's explanation, Truth opposed to the initiation of God and Compassion supported His idea. Hence God threw Truth to the ground. Thus man was created. Hence, the Bible says "Emet titzmach min ha'aretz. (Truth shall come forth out of the earth.)" The world needs both compassion, whose function is love, and truth, whose function is criticism. For the establishment of peace, we need different opinions as well as capacity to welcome conflicting viewpoints.
JYT
2011/4/28
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手島 佑郎 My teacher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of blessed memory used to say,"One of the main problem of this commandment is the question whether really you love yourself or not. If not, how can you love other people? because you do not know how to love even yourself." JYT
On 2011/04/07, at 15:14, Galila Wengrow Katz wrote:
4月7日 15:25
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手島 佑郎 Today NHK (the national broadcasting system of Japan) announced as top news that the Israeli Medical Team has decided to donate all medical equipments and 6 prefabricated houses to the town terribly devastated by tsunami after the team's departure from Japan on April 10. The team already started to train the local doctors how to use the equipments. Many thanks to Israel and her good will.
JYT
On 2011/04/07, at 14:49, Neri Bar-On wrote:
4月7日 15:
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Jacob Yuroh Teshimaさん 4月1日 13:49
Currently Israeli Army Emergency Medical Team is very highly appreciated by Japanese people. They show us a good example. All the best to you.
JYT
Irit Hakimさん 4月2日 0:55 報告
I am glad Israel is giving a help to others.
We use to say that if we helped ourselves the way we help others we would be in a better situation :):):)
best regards
Irit
Jacob Yuroh Teshimaさん 4月2日 10:36
We the Japanese say, "NASAKE-wa HITO-no TAMENARAZ", which means, 'kind deeds are not for others sake (but for ones own sake)'.
KOL TUV!
JYT
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Since the Fall of Adam all tragedy was brought down to the world by human beings.
It will take a decade to Japan for the initial recovery from the latest tragedy, and several decades for the complete cooling of the nuclear reactors damaged by tsunami.
We the Japanese have recovered from the tragedy and catastrophe of atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because we were ignorant on Nuclear at that time. Hence, our fathers dared to rebuild the cities out of radiated ruins without knowing what effect shall come to them later.
Today we are so much informed about the fearful side of Nuclear instead of the rational management of its control. Thus, many of us just fear and hesitate to control the Fukushima First Plant while many workers there sacrifice themselves for the control of the disaster notwithstanding the high level of atomic radiation. I wish I could be substitute for them!
We almost forgot that a dog is a descendant of wolf. This is the tragedy. From now on, we have to be very careful to tame a new kind of wolf and train it to become cooperative with human for the sake of worldﾕs welfares in future.
I sincerely hope smooth recovery of the suffered people from the Fukushima accidents.
Jacob Yuroh Teshima
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Two weeks before his death, one afternoon, on the Broadway just in front of the Union Theological Seminary in his return to his home from the Jewish Theological Seminary, my Teacher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of blessed memory, asked me: "As you know, Jacob, I'm writing the English version of the book on Kotzk, which title is good for it either 'A Passion for Sincerity' or 'A Passion to Truth'? After his death the book was published under the title ﾒA Passion for Truthﾓ.
I recommend you "The Zaddik" written by Samuel Dresner, who became the first disciple of Heschel since Hebrew Union College.
If you can read Hebrew, try ﾒMaggid Devarav leYaakovﾓ try at least.
Or my book, ﾒZen and Hasidism, a comparative study.ﾓ JYT
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-- A monologue --
Someone told: " Martin Buber said that God is not above or beneath inside or outside but BETWEEN the I and Thou."
That comment was hung in my heart for several days.
Because it sounds like true.
However, in my reading Buber's work I do not remember that he said, "God is not above or beneath inside or outside but BETWEEN the I and Thou."
Buber said, "The You encounters me. But I enter into a direct relationship to it" in his book "I and Thou" (trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, 1970, p.117).
The Buberian I-You relation consists of a rather strange combination of the silently confronting You (which is the eternal God) and eloquently addressing I (which is the human being).
The more we talk, the more we should reduce ourselves into silence. Or, the more we think and contemplate, then the lesser we could talk in chosen words.
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People may segregate mankind for selfish reason. But God never discriminates between people but tries to atone their wounds.
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Today NHK (the national broadcasting system of Japan) announced as top news that the Israeli Medical Team has decided to donate all medical equipments and 6 prefabricated houses to the town terribly devastated by tsunami after the team's departure from Japan on April 10. The team already started to train the local doctors how to use the equipments. Many thanks to Israel and her good will.
JYT
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My teacher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of blessed memory used to say,"One of the main problem of this commandment is the question whether really you love yourself or not. If not, how can you love other people? because you do not know how to love even yourself." JYT
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Thank you for your invitation to the Interfaith Encounter Association. I highly appreciate your dedication to the interfaith cause. I currently do not belong to any religious institution. I am a Christian having a deep understanding of Judaism and a fair knowledge on Zen Buddhism. My friend Prof. Harold Kasimow of Grinnell College is a person most suitable to your project. Please try to find him on the Internet. In the meantime, I wish you heavenly blessings upon your holy work. Sincerely, JYT http://homepage3.nifty.com/teshima/
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Basically I appreciate your idea of Israel-Palestine Federation. I think it might be one of several proposals. Further, a three-states federation including Jordan could be another proposal.
However, the urgent central issue here seems to me not a blueprint of political entity but a matter of will to deepen the mutual respect rather than to create such entity by two people.
In the mean time I postpone my participation, though I sympathize with you.
You and I talk honestly from the bottom of hearts and understand each another. But when we turn to the political leaders, they refrain themselves from straight talk.
What I did in the past for the peace of the area was to influence a Japanese Prime Minister in a very indirect way at his visit in Israel, Palestine and Jordan to make a pledge of endowment of financial help for the development plans shared with mutual projects in the area. It was probably only political action that I initiated for the peace of your entire area.
Sincerely,
JYT
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Yes, I will send this to my friends. However, in my retrospect, though I have survived from many hardships in my life; drawing into a water in winter, flood, nearly committing suicide out of despair, terrible stomach ulcer for many years, poverty among the poor in Harlem, discrimination by scholars, excommunication by kinsmen and unemployment, and so on, and I know that myself is a weak man, only by the mercy of the Heaven I have been protected and kept alive. Who could be "a strong man" as you said? Where can I find a strong man?
Only hope has abided me to overcome all hardships.
JYT
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Jacob Yuroh Teshima 2011年4月8日 22:04
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Seeds of dandelion were brought by wind to the Far East through the land of Japan.
It could not happen to the apple
Yours, Jacob Teshima
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A strong person knows how to keep their life in order. Even with tears in their eyes, they still manage to say "I'm ok" with a smile. Send this to a strong person. I just did. Change is coming. God saw your sadness and said hard times are over. Send this to anyone who made you smile this year :)
6時間前 � いいね！ � � お知らせ受信を停止
Anne B
those are beautiful words, Dani. I have no doubt that the strong are those who allow the tears to fall
6時間前 � いいね！ � 2人
Dani K
Thanks Anne. Not my words, someone sent it to me. Every bit of encouragement helps.
6時間前 � いいね！
Varda
Thank you,
6時間前 (から) � いいね！
手島 佑郎 Yes, I will send this to my friends. However, in my retrospect, though I have survived from many hardships in my life; drawing into a water in winter, flood, nearly committing suicide out of despair, terrible stomach ulcer for many years, ...続きを読む
5時間前 (から) � いいね！ � 1人
Zsuz
Jakob so sound like a real surviver, Chapeau and I am sorry for all your suffering
Klara
Thanks Dani I shall shere with some friens
4時間前 � いいね！
Anne
Jacob, your words tell me that because you have kept your hope and haven't lost faith in the mercy of heaven (and are definitely here with us!) -then you are truly a strong man! All the best, A.
4時間前 � いいね！
Galila
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手島 佑郎 Yes. Dear Galila , my dear friend, I read his book "Night and Fog" 52 years ago. My teacher, Rabbi Heschel also survived a lot of accounts of misery. In my case, I stupidly kept the words given to me by Buber in spring of 1963 at his home. JYT
4時間前 � いいね！ � 1人
Zsuz
His Logotherapy is built on this wisdom of free choice not in what happens but what we do with what happens and the other that a purpose makes as want to stay alife.
4時間前 � いいね！ � 1人
Zsuz
you dont stop to surprise dear Jakob
4時間前 � いいね！
Galila
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Ron
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3時間前 � いいね！ � 1人
Ron
I read you, I feel you, I lern from you - Jacob. You have mantioned Buber Here. My heart missed a bit. Just at this moment I mentioned here above a person from his family that like an apple did not fall far from the tree.
3時間前 � いいね！
Anne
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3時間前 � いいね！ � 1人
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Seeds of dandelion were brought by wind to the Far East through the land of Japan.
It could not happen to the apple
Yours, Jacob Teshima
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Dear Kim,
I am happy to hear from you.
Often many of the Jewish people claim their demands with harsh words before listening to other's opinion, particularly matters related to persecution mania, when they feel being provoked or opposed by the other. Otherwise, they are normal and polite. We have to be aware of this inclination in dialogue with them. I was also short tempered in my young years, though Iﾕm a Japanese.
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Words often hurt people and make them indifferent to others. Yet words can change people from callous to attentive to others. Thank you, Ruthy, for presenting this heartwarming drama
I used to become critical quickly to other's statement and hurt his/her feeling and pride, and lost many friends with harsh words. I thought that I was right and other wrong despite I was not in the position of holding absolute justice.
Now, as a token of my regret and repentance at old age I recommend the words of gentle expression to you as well as to myself.
Thus I still learn a lot of lessons from all of you regardless of your faith and ethos.
Remember that Moses was not faced to G-d but looked people when he threw the tablets in a rage.
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Dear Basil, my language ability is not like those Jewish fluent in multi languages. Yet, people can understand each other by one word after another word if they have a will to understand other people before they express theirs own criteria, like the mother try to understand her baby. Dear Basil, try to influence other Palestinian to look into this site.
Dear Ari, although I understand what you say, I politely request you to allow the participants to express their heart rather than to centralize members' opinions into certain identity or ethnic solidarity.
From the outset, love is not a matter of word but an attitude of sympathy.
Free talking between "you and i" brings us to mutual understanding, and eventually meeting face to face, and finally sharing something in common.
The sun shines over all of us regardless of our human disputes, and makes the earth produce life.
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To say "Love thy neighbor" is easy.
However, have we ever thought "I was loved my neighbor"?
How should we do in order to become loved by our neighbor?
Think how we should act to be worthy of neighbor's love and to live together peacefully.
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Faith and religion are not necessarily the same one. Faith is a matter of an individual who trusts on someone or somebody, while religion is an issue of a group, often interests of particular ethnic or nation, which supports a particular belief. An individual can make peace with other individuals.
Behold, Abraham was a single person. He settled several conflicts with his neighbors and eventually received respect from the local people.
If the group "Love thy neighbors" desires to make peace with its neighbors, I rather recommend you to visit the neighbors physically than to spend time with ideological claims or disputes.
There will be no peace unless you physically embrace your neighbors from heart to heart and face to face.
I wish all of us to expand such personal trust and mutual confidence between our neighbors and ourselves.
It is very easy to make enemies if you take confrontation or opposition to other people.
My teacher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once tallied me "Are you sure that you love yourself truly? Did not you deceive yourself? For instance, often people express their determination. 'I will do such and such thing this year.' And before the end of the year he forgot and never accomplished his promise to himself. Thus he betrays himself. How could he love himself? And furthermore how could he love other people?"
Once I met an Arab journalist in Jordan who used to be a stout member of PFLP.
The government several times imprisoned him because of his radicalism.
However, in the course of time, he realized the limit of violence and turned to choose the dialogue with Israel. He was even appointed to be an adviser to the late King Hussein by His Majesty himself.
The words "anti-" or "pro-" were no longer his matter. He did embrace many Israelis with whom he had fought previously.
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My teacher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, hated all kind of segregation notwithstanding of his complete loyalty to Judaism.
He accepted all people as works of God and shared prayer not only with the Jews but also with the Christians and the Muslims.
To him Judaism is so sacred to make himself ready to die for its sake.
However, he never demanded to other people to follow his way.
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