Dear Friends,
As we reach the end of the year, I want to thank all of you who have been reading these posts. I hope you have found them to be meaningful and even, inspiring.
This spring marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, who had a dream to create a world with more equality for all. They dreamt a special dream and my prayer for all of us is that whether we are graduating, whether we are faculty or staff, or whether we are students (aren’t we all students?), that we will find a dream, work toward its achievement and be blessed with its fulfillment.
My parents used to send me off to school with two bits of blessing and wisdom. First they urged me to “learn something!” and secondly they quoted an old Gaelic blessing:
“May the roads rise with you,
And the wind be always at your back,
And may the Lord hold you in the hollow of His Hand.”
May you carry these words with you in the days and years ahead.
B’shalom,
Rabbi Bruce D. Aft