May God guard and protect, comfort and assure our sisters and brothers in Manchester’s Jewish community; may he purge our church of every trace of hatred, arrogance, presumption, and intolerance; may he cure that madness into which we rush when drunk with bigotry or desperation; may he straighten the crooked politics by which a very few benefit from stirring up unholy passions; as God’s people have so recently prayed, may the wicked talk no more so very proudly, and let not arrogance come from their mouth.
May God’s kindness and relief protect those who suffer in innocence, in Manchester and Israel and Gaza and the West Bank. May peace be upon Jerusalem, and on all who call the Land their home.