The Velveteen Rabbi points today toward a splendid prayer before voting from Reb David Seidenberg. These words in particular caught my Druid eye:
Just as I participated in elections today
so may I merit to do good deeds and repair the world with all my actions,
and with the act of…[fill in your pledge] which I pledge to do today
on behalf of all living beings and in remembrance of the covenant of Noah’s waters
to protect and to not destroy the earth and her plenitude.
You can find the whole prayer in both English and Hebrew, with the author’s commentary, here.
(I promise this is as close to political commentary as I’ll get.)
