Prayer is our greatest weapon

A new year is an opportunity for a new start, an opportunity to turn over a new leaf, and begin writing on a new page. An opportunity to refresh our old stubborn ways and beliefs and embrace new ones.

The fire of antisemitism was burning long before 7 October. To this day, it is an influential and powerful sense of loathing.

As a nation as spiritual, powerful, and innocent as ourselves, our voices are sure to be heard. However, the world still sees the demons that persecute us as heroes. And it still gives in to the most unjustifiable lies.

A year since such unimaginable horror was committed against our people and our country, and now we find ourselves celebrating the new year.

As much as Rosh Hashanah has always been about shul and family, prayer, and icky sticky honey and apples, it has also been about refreshing my character and values.

Imagine if the entire world woke up on Rosh Hashanah with a new perspective on the Jews. With a new moral compass and understanding of what is right and wrong. The war would end, and all people would live together in harmony.

This new year is a perfect opportunity for us to convince the media that it has got it all wrong.

The year is new, and you can be too. Along with soldiers and grenades, you need prayer to win this war. Let’s have empathy and not sympathy for our nation’s suffering, and do everything we can to bring about peace. Because we are a year in and we have never been this desperate.

Let us stay strong and not spiral into a depression. For hundreds of soldiers did not lose their lives for you to live a life of fear and distress.