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“If we organize a service, we have to be aware that we cannot organize God but only offer boundaries within which God's presence can be sensed.”

When Israel remembers God's great acts of love and compassion, she enters into these great acts them-selves. To remember is not simply to look back at past events; more importantly, it is to bring these events into the present and celebrate them here and now. For Israel, remembrance means participation.”

“By hiding parts of our story, not only from our own consciousness but also from God's eye, we claim a divine role for ourselves; we become judges of our own past and limit mercy to our own fears.”

“…what is forgotten cannot be healed and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.”