O Lord, we confess our sins, we are ashamed of the inadequacy of our anguish, of how faint and slight is our mercy. We are a generation that has lost its capacity for outrage. We must continue to remind ourselves that in a free society all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.
Suggested Discussion Questions:
1. In what ways have we lost our capacity for outrage?
2. How are we responsible, as Heschel asserts?
3. What kind of mercy would Heschel like to see?
1. In what ways have we lost our capacity for outrage?
2. How are we responsible, as Heschel asserts?
3. What kind of mercy would Heschel like to see?
Time Period: Contemporary (The Yom Kippur War until the present-day)