Lee Diamond – For these Sins על חטא
For the sin that We have committed
By abandoning the Jewish people
For the sin that We have committed
By rejecting our fellow Jews
For the sin that We have committed
By allowing anti semitism flourish
For the sin that We have committed
By disregarding our recent past
For the sin We have committed
By hiding from the truth and burying our heads in the sand.
For the sin that We have have committed by seeking alternative ethnic acceptance and forgetting our own
For the sin that We have committed
In thinking that it is “My way or No way .”
For the sin that We have committed
By choosing Jewish ignorance.
For the sin that We have committed
By rejecting the land of Israel
For the sin that We have committed
By denying Zionism as elementary
To Judaism.
For the sin that We have committed
By transforming Judaism into religion or belief only.
For the sin that We have committed
By not counting other Jews in our minyan
For the sin that We have committed
By allowing for foolish sectarianism to define us as Jews.
For the sin that We have committed
By forgetting Zion
For the sin that We have committed by
Forgetting the Jewish diaspora
For the sin that We have committed
By failing to face Jerusalem
For all these Sins and others
Master of the Universe
Pardon Us
Forgive Us
Teach us to Change
Inscribe Us
Seal us
Hold onto Us
In the Book of
Life
