Stumbled across this on YouTube last night whilst going down the nusach rabbit hole. It's made me write out something metaphysical and hopefully motivational.
God is what is. Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh! Rashi says this means God is with us in these bad times just as God is with us in any bad times, which is a powerful message. But what resonates with me the most is Ramban - "As you are with me, so I am with you". What we receive - what all that is gives us - can only be a reflection of what we give.
God gave us the world, and we moulded it into the way it is today. But just as we made it this way, we can make it another way.
If God fixes the world for us, then it is as if we were never here at all. The unrepaired world is our shame. Tikkun Olam is our burden and our brilliance.
What is it that drives our ability to change things? The moments that we connect, to each other and to God. That supercharge us, in gatherings and in crowds and in stadiums - in minyans. Moments like this beautiful sight and sound that I've linked to.
A charity can be a minyan. A trade union can be a minyan. I might lose some of you here, but a state can be a minyan.
Maybe I'll only be one tenth, one hundredth, or one thousandth of each one, but that's exactly why we come together.
I want to repair the world.
I can repair the world.
I will repair the world.