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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi Alex Chapper, Community Rabbi
Borehamwood & Elstree Synagogue

Good morning

Memory is important to all of us

We all have things of greater or lesser importance we need to remember in our daily lives, whether that鈥檚 the work we need to do or the dry cleaning we need to collect. Some matters only need to be committed to our short term memory and once we鈥檝e remembered them we can quickly forget them but others require us to fix them in our long term memory.

As tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day, throughout this week, I鈥檇 like us to explore the theme of memory and the things we should remember.

The Holocaust is a stain on the soul of humanity and to remember the millions of people murdered is an imperative to ensure that such genocide cannot and will not ever happen again.

We know that the victims of the Holocaust were dehumanised in the eyes of their persecutors and so we must remember them as human beings just like us - men, women and children. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, family. Each with their own unique hopes and dreams but who were all cruelly denied a future.

Our remembrance of them is a sacred duty, a collective memorial of individuals and a personal commitment never to forget.

Let鈥檚 pray that we remember the lessons of the Holocaust because we owe it to its victims.

Let鈥檚 remember that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." - words proclaimed 70 years ago by the General Assembly of the United Nations as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Let鈥檚 remember that we鈥檙e all made in the image of G-d

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