May we have courage and strength to do this work with great tenderness and compassion, on behalf of so many beings who have been caught in the thickets, and cannot even be present to the pain and beauties of their own lives. All of us, yearning to be here, and sometimes to be here, we first have to dig through the deep dark.

— Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Shannah Tovah, The Epichorus, Temenos, 2025