Benediction at the Rededication of Temple Beth-El
February 28, 2003

By Rabbi Lawrence I. Jackofsky
Director, Southwest Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations


Do you hear God's words?

Asu li mikdash v'shacanti b'tochem!

“Let them build Me a Sanctuary that I may dwell Among them!”

Do you hear God's words, reverberating throughout this Holy Place?

This space is renewed…
This space revitalized…
This space rededicated…

By our deeds, these words are made new, and they bring us together as they did thousands of years ago in Sinai. In this place we are at home, the place of sacred yearning, the place of sacred learning, the place of sacred community! The place where the Divine and the human meet.

May we be blessed whenever we come to this place. May we be blessed whenever we go forth from this place.

Amen.


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