By the Reflecting Pool

After a mini-protest in Washington last week while President Herzog was on his way to speak to Congress, I walked over to the Lincoln Memorial – just past the Reflecting Pool on America’s National Mall – and read some words that resonated me with in our current situation.

“Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.… With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds … to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

כן יהי רצום.