Engaging w/ Elul August 20, 2013

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace… War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever. The Watchtower, April 15, 1991; Is World Peace on the Horizon?
– Elie Wiesel 

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
– Elie Wiesel

This is truly what it means to be a prophetic voice in our world today.  The sense of responsibility to and for one another is knowing that peace also comes from the Hebrew word for wholeness - shleimut.  It is seeking to be whole as humanity, binding ourselves together rather than pulling apart that we find peace, that we see the potential to be the better world we all want.

Make Today a Great Day,

Rabbi Evon