 Wow that light is really strong just so you're aware that light is really strong For those of you who are standing in the back. There are still some seats that are I believe Left in the balcony If you'd like to sit down Okay, I take that back So good evening and thank you for coming There is a Jewish prayer That expresses reverence and awe for synagogues and other places of worship in Hebrew it's called Matau vu How goodly are our tents? Oh Jacob your dwelling places. Oh Israel as for me Through your abundant grace. I enter your house of worship With awe in the safety of your sacred place That is Matau vu the first two lines of Matau vu Interestingly the first line of this prayer is a quote from Balam a man sent to curse the Israelites when they were wandering in the desert But is instead overcome with awe at God and the Israelites house of worship the first line in this prayer is the only prayer Commonly said at Jewish services that is actually written by a person who wasn't Jewish and It is about entering a house of prayer and a house of worship We are all here together this evening To mourn precious lives lost to honor To honor their memories To seek and find comfort in the company of this wonderful and amazing community and to find understanding What each each of us today and in the days to come can fully appreciate the true enormity of the events in Pittsburgh and How these events impact Jews here in Burlington and around the world? My name is Karen Paul I'm a member of the Burlington City Council and a member of this Jewish community, and I am proud to be among you this evening We have a number of people who will be offering words from their hearts on the unspeakable hateful and vengeful tragedy this weekend and perhaps most importantly They will be imparting their message of resolve and unity Please join us in the following two songs My name is David Edelson Rabbi David Edelson at Temple Sinai to make the people standing feel comfortable Those of you who are physically able I want to ask to stand now And I want to ask you to introduce yourself to the people on either side of you and you So if the person next to you is comfortable with putting your arm or touching that's fine But we have many different faith traditions and so some people are not comfortable with that But make a community however it feels comfortable for you and sing this with us How pleasant for brethren for those of us who are in kinship of faith To be together in unity you may be seated those of you that have seats And now we're going to sing a song Called guest shirts are mode and it's from a rabbi called Nachman of Bratslav and the word seemed very appropriate now All the world is a very narrow bridge. The key is Not to fear at all And it starts off slow, and then it goes high and gets a little rowdy. So make it work with us So everyone can join. Yeah, thank you. That was beautiful It is my pleasure now to introduce the mayor of the city of Burlington mayor Maro Weinberger Good evening everyone Let me start by thanking Rabbi small for her leadership and bringing us all together tonight Welcome everyone. Welcome to our city hall. Welcome to Contoy's auditorium. I Must say, you know, I've been in this room now many times This is one of the fullest rooms. We've had here in recent years and as mayor As a Jew it is very comforting to stand up here and see how many people have come out to to be together at this time I Already have a sense of how this evening is going to go and the humanity and love that I'm very confident is our faith leaders and musicians are Going to elicit and bring together I as a Political leader as a mayor what I've been reflecting on today is Also, what is what is Incumbent on us as a community. Where do we go from here? What do we have to do? Tragically Because of the hate-filled anti-Semitic actions in Pittsburgh this weekend There are 11 people who are not with their communities and their families tonight Joyce Feinberg Richard Gottfried Rose Malinger Jerry Rabinowitz Cecil Rosenthal David Rosenthal Bernice Simon Sylvan Simon Daniel Steele Melvin wax and Irving Younger are not with their families tonight What happened in Pittsburgh this weekend was a product of two deeply troubling trends in America The first is something that I've talked about and we've debated as a community many times before here in Burlington and that is the Laws and the attitudes on gun policies that we have in this country With the Pittsburgh shooting the Jewish community has become the latest in a long line of victims of those flawed gun policies Burlingtonians have been on the forefront of calling for change here in Vermont and Thankfully, we are finally starting to make progress I'm committed to working towards further reform these massacres are virtually unique to the United States They are a function of our laws of our policies and I believe that we can and then we must change them in addition however, the events of this past weekend are about something else they are an indication that here in America bigotry generally and anti-semitism specifically are on the rise This is sadly a predictable outcome of Our president's willingness to sympathize with to empower and to enable white supremacists This is a grave and disturbing threat and there's only really one thing that we can do to address it And that's do what we're doing here tonight doing what we're doing right now coming together Standing together and to speak out The urgency for doing that I must say came to me apart from listening to a podcast this morning the New York Times podcast the daily maybe some of you heard it and if you did you heard this incredible speech by Rabbi Prince who was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin in Berlin during the rise of the Third Reich and in that speech he said Powerfully that the most important thing that I have learned In my life. He said is that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problems The most urgent the most disgraceful the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence Tonight we are not being silent. We are gathering. We are standing together We are speaking out and sadly I think we are going to be called on to do this together many more times in the weeks and months and years ahead Thank you for all coming together and being part of this tonight We are very privileged to have with us tonight the lieutenant governor of the state of Vermont. It's my pleasure to introduce David Zuckerman Thank You Karen and Rabbi Small and all of the interfaith leaders from Vermont interfaith action and others who are Here in brother and sisterhood as well as all of you here in brother and sisterhood With our community in Pittsburgh our community here our community across the country and our community Frankly around the world of people that believe in peace believe in love believe in caring for our fellow humans and not in hate and violence Thank you for organizing this. I Want to briefly mention there's still some room in the corner here Some of the folks standing want to slowly work your way in because there's still a lot of folks outside So folks can even slightly shuffle in I won't mind while I'm speaking But there is quite a bit of room. I grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts another deeply Jewish faith-based community and I'm thinking a lot about family and friends in That community as well as our community here and our friends in Pittsburgh and I'm thinking about how We reach out to each other We can soul each other in these challenging times These violent times and how we also stand with each other to think how can we improve our community and How so much of the of the true faith that many in this room have across all the different religions It's about making our community better It's about helping those who are in need It's about giving love to those who are in pain and that's what we must continue to do as Political leader a white male cis economically stable in power I Want to say it is most incumbent upon those of us who have the privileges that we have to speak up for those who are most vulnerable and if we as Political leaders and religious leaders speak up Against the hateful rhetoric that we were seeing from our president and other political leaders and Sadly even from some religious leaders in this country Who will if we don't and that's why we are here and that's why we are in places of worship all across this country in halls of governance all across this country Arm and arm spirit in spirit We will get through this Not just this moment, but the bigger this We will hold each other's hands. We will hug each other and We will continue to speak up and speak out. We need to bring reason to hate We need to bring love to pain and we need to bring peace to hostility Thank you. Thank you David for those inspiring words Congressman Peter Welch could not be with us this evening. He wanted to be he's actually in southern Vermont tonight But he does have a statement which will be read by Rabbi Amy Small Congressman Welch was anxious to be here and sad to have to send a statement, but wanted to make sure his voice is heard None of us can begin to comprehend the loss suffered by the tree of life community None of us can begin to comprehend the evil that would inspire someone armed with combat weapons and Malignant anger to take the lives of 11 extraordinary individuals who gave Selflessly to their communities and lived each day with love for neighbor and stranger alike Yet all of us can be inspired by the example set by the tree of light Community they have redoubled their commitment to each other and to the resolve to love their neighbors and help all among us the devastating tragedy happened in an extraordinary community the horror of targeting people who are different as other affects many identities every day in communities across our country each of us Must repudiate this prejudice at every opportunity We are all in this together And we must reaffirm our conviction that every human being is deserving of respect Dignity and security each and every day Our first reading this evening will be from Sharon Lyftschitz the Assistant director of UVM Selle. Hi everyone Thank you For being here this evening My name is Sharon Lyftschitz. I use she her pronouns, and I'm the assistant director of UVM Hillel And my heart is broken. I find that in times of immense sorrow and Also in times of immense joy when things just feel so overwhelming that I Turn to Judaism my my Jewish faith For some guidance maybe a little comfort to help me try to center What's happening and Reflecting on the tragedy that happened on Shabbat. It's past Shabbat. I'm I'm drawn to two words Shamur viz ahur To keep and to remember And I think about what I'm feeling the anger the frustration the fear the pain And then I think about the choice that I have the choice of what I choose to keep And what I choose to remember And through what I'm feeling I am going to keep with me joy And compassion and empathy I'm going to keep the faces that I'm seeing in this room keeping this memory of the community in my heart I'm going to remember These 11 souls that were taken from us because they were Jewish And I will remember what I can do every single day To make a difference and combat the injustice we see in the world And then I think about what I believe I believe I can be a light I believe that each of you We can be a light in this darkness And in my work at UVM Hillel, I am surrounded by light every day And the students that I am privileged to work with And it is my honor to be able to introduce two of them to you now Who have helped me navigate these really challenging and difficult moments The first is a la Collins Who I don't know how you did this put together a vigil at UVM Saturday evening through your pain and suffering led a community In remembering and honoring 11 souls that were taken too soon Absolutely Needed and incredible And I also have the privilege of introducing Alexis Katie after that Who will be sharing her story as she is from squirrel hill And dealing with this tragedy in her own community Alec Hi, my name is Alec Collins. I you see him pronouns Uh, this prayer is entitled a prayer for healing after a hate crime It's adapted from Rabbi Seth Goldstein Hello, hey, no fellow. Hey, I'll botan of you motanu Our god and god of our ancestors hate and death has been visited upon our people One of our sacred spaces has been violated We feel we feel vulnerable Afraid angry and broken Our spirits are overflowing with grief and sorrow God and god of our ancestors. We pray to you May strength come from our vulnerability So we can support one another and receive the support of others with gratitude and humility May compassion come from our fear So we do not act from that fear and we can pursue justice not revenge Peace not more violence May wisdom come from our anger So we are able to see that an attack against us is an attack against all And we are able to join in common cause with those who are similarly oppressed and targeted May healing come from our brokenness So we are able to rise from this challenge with renewed life commitment and connection May our shared grief be a comfort to the loved ones and friends of those whose lives were taken too soon May their memories be a blessing And may our sorrow be a source of strength to those who were injured whether in body or in spirit God and god of our ancestors in light of this act of violence and hatred We maintain our commitment to be shaharit yisrael the remnant of israel continually upholding the teachings and traditions of your covenant Pursuing righteousness and compassion justice and mercy peace and understanding love and friendship May you frustrate those who seek to do harm And uphold those who seek to do good May the shelter of your peace spread over us and over all who dwell on earth and together we say Amen I never thought it would happen near me This cliche has been repeated all too often lately and now piss perk repeats it also My name is alexis katie and I hail from squirrel hill mere blocks from the tree of life synagogue And this saturday a deadly shooting devastated my community and rippled across the world because of hate and fear I never thought it would happen near me My community. I am proud to say is one of inclusion and diversity And interwovenness like many people are finding out through the news But all but do not let this gloss over the problems and hate that exists there, too Please don't misunderstand me. I love my city It has taught me to understand difference not fear it But it is also a place where racism prejudice and anti-semitism exists Whether in the shadows or in the daylight And these issues exist in every part of our country in some way or another We must stop glossing over them It is hard to confront this but to stop it to stop adding to the shootings the bombings The misunderstandings we must confront it in every community. We are a part of To stop the repeating of the phrase. I never thought it would happen near me We must act small and big. We must vote. We must talk and try to understand each other We must be caring and pull people in not push them away Do not leave this do not let this phrase spread to more places fight it Pittsburgh feels your support, but do not let it stop tonight Support your own communities confront these problems and help with the solution We need each other for this Otherwise one day we will all be saying I never thought this was happened near me Thank you That's hard just hard to know what to say after that The next reading that we have is is from the cry of sarah It will be from rabbi jan salzman of rucha hamakom So holy brothers and sisters, I invite you to silence your cell phones There is a scream in the jewish retelling of the opening verse of this week's Torah portion Chaya sarah or the life of sarah This week our tradition asks why is the portion called life of sarah If in fact it is the announcement that she has died What caused her to die? Our tradition offers a midrash an imaginative reflection on the opening verse of the Torah portion Chaya sarah the life of sarah By connecting it to the binding of her son yitzchak of isek in last week's Torah portion Last week her husband, abraham, sneaks off in the morning with their son Isaac to walk three days to a sacred mountain In order to offer isek up to god The midrash imagines that sarah is awakened by an angel Some say an evil angel Some say a beneficent angel To let her know what is about to transpire And she screams a scream that shoots through time and space And it is that scream which interrupts abraham's knife And with that scream She dies In solidarity with each other And all those who suffer needless execution by madmen I offer that there is a very great power in a scream Our scream can interrupt the violence It can bring to the world the interruption that it needs In order to recalibrate our nation Our world actually towards the ark of justice We must never hold that scream inside of us We cry out from our deepest core to interrupt And redirect Our voices are our tools Our feet follow the clarion call of the outrage Time and time again in Torah It is our screams Our calling out our vayikra'ing That initiates the moment when change begins When the move towards liberation is initiated When justice rains down from the heavens upon us all But only when we call out for it to start raining May we all find that scream within us and let it out Who knows what evil we might dismantle Our next reading is from Barry Weiss of the New York Times And it will be delivered by Rabbi David Edelson of Temple Sinai Hello everybody, I so appreciate you coming This is from an editorial that she wrote a few days ago called A Massacre in the Heart of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood We are living in an age when anti-Semitism is on the rise here at home You need only think of last year's chance of Jews will not replace us in Charlottesville Or the president's constant attacks on globalists, international bankers, and the corrupt media All of which are commonly associated with Jews in the minds of anti-Semites It isn't at all surprising that these rhetorical tropes have translated into acts of violence According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic incidents rose by 57% in 2017 And even if Mr. Bowers also reviled the president as insufficiently nationalist He said there is no make America great as long as there is a kike infestation Every Jewish community in America will now have to make sensible decisions about how to ensure That they are not the next victims of such a crime But those hard choices should not make us forget the core values That make communities like Squirrel Hill what they are Welcoming, big-hearted, and profoundly decent One of the gifts of the Jewish experience in America Is that because we have been so welcomed and so safe here These values have been able to flourish Just as every Jewish couple gets married under a canopy that is open on all four sides A replica of the tent modeled for us by Abraham and Sarah So must Jewish communities keep our tents open This is the true source of our longevity and our resilience Now the Jews of Pittsburgh joined the growing list of communities around the world that have Been terrorized by anti-Semitic fanatics from Kansas City to Brussels to Mumbai to Jerusalem The heartbreak is indescribable But Squirrel Hill I am certain will continue to live By the values that Jews have sustained for more than 2000 years Those values can never be gunned down We're going to interrupt our program because we're very fortunate to have with us Chief Brandon Del Pozo of the Burlington police Who just got back from a trip just off an airplane and his first stop was here Thank you for being with us. It's a pleasure to have you here Chief Brandon Del Pozo Usually when I speak extemporaneously, I use humor to bridge the gap And I'm in a little bit of a loss tonight because I don't think I can avail myself of that technique Thank you for asking me to take the podium I'm Jewish. I've been by Mitzvud when I was young I was so proud of my grandfather for fighting in World War II as a paratrooper against the Nazis that I Enlisted in the ROTC to continue that tradition to defend our values And when I was young I was in a Secular Jewish family. I loved Hanukkah seven nights of presence Not so hot on Yom Kippur And I would wonder how Jewish I was was I was I Jewish enough, you know Not just to enter the kingdom of heaven, but was I Jewish enough to Meet the the needs of the religion and to feel authentic and one of the things that My grandfather would always say is that When they come for you Don't worry. You're Jewish enough And I never quite forget that that you know when people ask me if I do the to fill in or not if I do the We're a miyamika. I've had some heart to hearts with the rabbis You know, it loses sight of The problem which is that you know In this community in this room, we're blind to distinctions that are arbitrary and don't matter about The manner in which you worship God or the manner in which you love your family the manner in which you come together Is a community I look around the room and I see jews, muslims, christians, agnostics I'm sure there's atheists in this room. That's not the point But in the eyes of hate You're muslim enough and you're jewish enough and you're agnostic enough and you're atheist enough and uh, you know I was just The army I had to go back to the army in macabre now is it has a saying this Will defend we will defend and I was looking around this room standing behind my deputy chief and I said this We will defend Thank you Thank you chief del pozo The next reading is the 23rd psalm And it will be delivered by rebbs and dracy junich I'll read in psalm 23 A psalm by david the lord is my shepherd. I shall lack nothing He lays me down in green pastures. He leads me beside all still waters He revives my soul. He directs me in paths of righteousness for the sake of his name Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me Your rod and your staff they will comfort me You will prepare a table for me before my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil My cup is full Only goodness and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life And I shall dwell in the house of the lord for many long years. Thank you We're going to chant the 23rd psalm It is a pleasure to have with us this evening for a reading imam abdallah al ansari who is the imam of the islamic society of vermont Good evening I have two selections from the quran that I would like to read The first one It speaks about the importance of judging others By the content of the character by the interior instead of the exterior It also addresses the importance of being steadfast and patient in the face of misfortunes and adversity The second reading teaches us the importance of not fighting fire with fire Not responding to evil with evil, but rather fighting evil with good Nabi Wahi Righteousness Is not that you turn your face to east or to west Rather true righteousness is one who believes in god the last day the angels The scripture and the prophets And gives of his wealth in spite of his love for it to relatives orphans the needy wayfarers Those who ask and for the emancipation of those in bondage Those who offer prayers Give alms and fulfill their promises when they promise Those who were steadfast in times of misfortune adversity and conflict Those are the ones who are true And it's they who are conscious of god Good and evil are not equal. They can never be equal. So repel evil With that which is superior i.e goodness You will find that he Who had previously been your most bitter enemy Will become your nearest and dearest friend But none is granted this level of tolerance and self-restraint Except those who are patient And none is granted it except the one granted a great share of goodness And if there comes to you from satan The evil suggestion to retaliate To fight evil with evil Then seek refuge in god Indeed he is all hearing And all knowing Thank you Our next reading First they come will be delivered by Reverend Ken White of the college street congregational church First they came for the socialists And i did not speak out because I was not a socialist Then they came for the trade unionist and i did not speak out because i was not a trade unionist then Then they came for the jews And i did not speak out because i was not a jew Then they came for me And there was no one left to speak for me With the h i a s statement and a reading from um uh abraham joshua hershal will be read by amy small of ojave zedek synagogue immediately after The tragic And horrific events this statement was released There are no words to express how devastated we are by the events in pittsburgh this morning This loss is our loss and our thoughts are with the tree of life congregation Our local partner the jewish family and community services of pittsburgh the city of pittsburgh and all those affected By this senseless act of violence As we try to process this horrifying tragedy We pray that the american jewish community and the country can find healing Hias is one of nine national refugee resettlement agencies They partner with the united states government to resettle refugees as part of the refugee admissions program hias was founded in 1881 as the hebrew immigrant aid society And it was originally an organization to help jews And now it is an organization for jews to help the world It was called out as the reason For this massacre And so they issued another statement and i'll read a selection from it Some of judyism's wisest traditions are around morning After someone dies we are told to sit low to the ground and to really sink into our grief Only after we have engaged in the morning process do we rise up and return to our lives And rise up we will Even more committed to the jewish movement for refugees More than ever before But in this moment We take the time to lean into our grief and to lean into community and to stand lovingly With friends families and communities of those who lost their lives in pittsburgh In deep is sorrow and solidarity From all of the staff at hias Many of us will now redouble our efforts To work with hias on refugee resettlement as a result of this tragedy Now the words of abraham joshua heschel To despair is to betray To us of this generation who have walked through the ruins of aborted dreams and desecrated ideals and have arrived at the 20th century The supreme question is How does the road sign read? Abandon all hope ye who enter or To despair is to betray At the end God's mercy will prevail The one road sign May be almost everywhere The other road side is revealed in the lives of those who would rather suffer than bear falsehood In another reading Relating to the holocaust He said we still feel the blow to our head Huge chunks are falling from the heavens But we have yet to grasp the rupture and the misfortune that has been fallen us We are still waiting for the funeral not yet ready to sit shiva distraught broken confused And petrified We are living in a state of chaos We celebrate our joyous occasions, but it's akin to holding a wedding ceremony at a cemetery Our world is a godless world We have forgotten that we live in a world that is impure Our conscience is mute We are distracted by the follies of this world I do not seek merely to unburden my heart We will not fulfill our obligation by reciting lamentations Our task is not to bang our heads against the wall Our task is to find an answer to a crucial question What is our generation's obligation? What is the task? Not to forget Never to be indifferent To other people's suffering The next reading dreaming of home by murrell felled Is from rabbi, uh, sorry rabbi reverend Just so used to saying it what can I say? Reverend reverend earl cooper camp the president of vermont interfaith action. Thank you I'd like to acknowledge that we're joined here this evening by uh, the right reverend tom ealy the Episcopal bishop of vermont So welcome bishop ealy sisters and brothers Even though our hearts are broken this evening our hearts by god's providence are called to love deeper Stronger and longer than the hatred of anti-semitism than white supremacy or than christophascist nationalism we need to learn to live together it says in uh proverbs uh michela 29 18 where there is no vision to people perish We will not perish because we are that vision as we gather here muslim jew Atheist diagnostic buddhist christian we gather here men and women we gather here trans bi gay lesbians We gather here as that vision to continue to love in god's way Dreaming of home by murrell felled We want We want so much to be in that place Where we are respected and cherished Protected acknowledged nurtured Encouraged heard And seen seen and all our loveliness In our fragile strength And safe safe and all our trembling vulnerability Where we are known and safe safe and known Is that possible Our next reading is merger by judy chicago From the reverend i've got reverend right now this time Laurel and laura angle can the director of uvm interface center Thank you for many of us poetry is a kind of prayer So hear this prayer from judy chicago And then all of what has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come to a world that is often harsh and unkind And then people of all genders will be gentle And then people of all genders will be strong And then no other person will be subject to another's will And then all will be rich and varied And then all will share equally in the earth's abundance And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old And then all will nourish the young And then we'll all and then all will cherish life's creatures And then all will live in harmony with each other and the earth And then everywhere will be called eden once again May we each in all our different ways in our different religious and philosophical Perspectives and practices be part of this prayers becoming In our homes and our communities and our nation and our world May it be so It is my pleasure and honor To introduce the former governor of the state of vermont former ambassador to switzerland Member of our wonderful jewish community and just amazing vermont er madeline cunan It really is a beautiful site To see all of you here And i'm just the reverend's words ringing in my head safe and known I must confess that when I first heard about The slaughter in pittsburgh I wondered if I was safe If I could be known as a jew And still feel safe We're looking at all of you I think you make all of us who are jewish or whatever religion we are safe Safe because I'm reminded of jfk's word isp and i'm berlina and I think You are all jews at this gathering And in that there is safety There is safety in numbers There is safety in declaring who you are Declaring that you have nothing to do with antisemitism and you never will Declaring that you will fight against antisemitism And be identified as one who does so For many jews, you know 99 percent of our lives We're not identified as jews We are americans Um, but when it comes to something like this Our religion counts our religion matters We can be proud of it. We don't have to duck for cover We can be americans and jews in safety in this country. Thank you One of my favorite songs is osesha lome. I'm so glad that it was chosen Please join us in singing osesha lome Next we're going to have a candle lighting. I'm done by uvm. Hello And that will be followed by a reading after sorry, I guess we're are we doing the No, we're doing this. Okay. I'm sorry. We're doing the the reading first Nishmat by marge piercy. This is uh, susan left the executive director of the jewish communities of vermont From nishmat march piercy We are given fire to see against the dark To think to read To study how we are to live To bank in ourselves against defeat and despair that cool and muddy our resolves That make us forget what we what we saw we must do We are given passion to rise again like the sun in our minds with the new day and burn the debris of habit and greed and fear We stand in the midst of the burning world Primed to burn with compassionate love and justice to turn inward And find holy fire at the core to turn outward And see the world that is all of one flesh with us See under the trash Through the smog the furry bee in the apple blossom The trout leaping The candles our ancestors lit for us the traditional jewish prayer for mourning is called kaddish It is a prayer of praise for god In gratitude for the precious gift of life It doesn't mention death. It doesn't speak of loss It speaks of the great opportunity we have To live as human beings and to be god's partners in this world For kaddish, I ask that we all stand, please I know you can't all see but the sight of those 11 candles is Both beautiful and heartbreaking And dramatic may the light of their lives And who they were never die out Yiddh gadaal Yiddh gadaa shemai rabah Baal maa divah rahi rutei Vi amlich maah rutei Beh khaehechonu vio mehechonu vah khaehei dekhor Beit Yisra'el Ba'galahu vizman kari vimru amen Yehei shemai rabah mev'arach La'alam ule'amei amaya Yiddh barach v'ishtabach V'id pa'ar v'id ramam v'id nasi V'id hadar v'id ale v'id halal Shem'id kudasha b'richu La'eila amin k'obir chata v'shirata Tush pechata v'nechemata Da'amiran ba'ama v'imru amen Yehei shlamaa raba amin shemai'a V'chayim aleinu ba'alkor Yisra'el v'imru amen Oseh shalom bimramav Huya'aseh shalom aleinu ba'alkor Yisra'el v'imru amen You may be seated. So we're going to conclude with this song. Go ahead. Okay. Yes, we're going to close off with one of the things about Judaism is even in times of grief. We look to our own responsibilities to do what is right regardless of what is done to us and we also look for a world that is better And we work towards tikkun olam making the world better so that one day we don't have to gather like this And so we join together in matisyahu song one day and please sing with us if you know it Thank you so much a wise woman a wise young woman wise beyond her years Anne Frank once said What is done cannot be undone But we can prevent it from happening again How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world If Anne Frank's words have taught us anything it is that actions and language matter We hope this evening has given us all a time to reflect and appreciate the greater understanding Of the need to address the evils that pervade But cannot be allowed to prevail if we each Amongst ourselves if we each in our own heart Resolve to act to improve the world to practice tikkun olam improving the world As often as we can we can go forth from this evening an even stronger community in unity. Thank you so much