Tonight marks the start of #YomHaShoah, a day dedicated to memorializing the 6 million Jews

[Hekate]

2. May all beings be free from suffering, and may we never forget

I said to my husband just the other day that there is so much urgent work to do in this world to save the planet; and yet there are people who truly love the violence of war, fantasize about war, plan for it, crave it.

The US Capitol insurrectionists tried to set one off, and it is too soon to tell if they will get their wish in what’s left of my lifetime. But Putin the Poisoner, in his lightless and shriveled soul, has the power to actually make it happen, and to try to wipe out a people in a 21st century genocide.

We Americans are duty-bound to get involved, to try and stop these monstrous events.

Yet all the while our Mother cries out…



I have a beautiful calligraphy made by my friend LKL some decades ago, in which the Hebrew letters of Hannah Senesh’s well-known poem form a candle. Crossing the flame is the blessing the True Judge. The translation as LK gave it to me is:

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.
Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame


Blessed art Thou HaShem our God, King of the Universe, the True Judge.