Dear friends, like you, I grieve deeply the slaughter of Jews in Israel, as they struggle to live in a world of unspeakable hatred. Below is the Holocaust Memorial Prayer, a Jewish prayer for the departed, prayed on numerous occasions throughout the year. Please join me in praying this prayer for Jews who have departed in recent days at the hands of Hamas.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL PRAYER
O God, Who art full of compassion, who dwells on high, grant perfect rest in Thy Divine presence to all the souls of our holy and pure brethren whose blood was spilt by the murderers in Auschwitz, Belize, Bergen Belsen, Dacau, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinca and other extermination camps in Europe; who were killed, strangled, burned alive for the sanctification for Thy Name. For whose souls we now pray. May their resting place be in the Garden of Eden, may the Master of Mercy shelter them in the shadows of His wings for eternity; and may he bind their souls in the Bond of Life.
Hashem (God) is their heritage, and may they repose in peace in their resting places.
Now let us say: Amen.
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