By Rabbi Mordechai Levin
Published by the Omaha World Herald – November 20, 2010
We offer our gratitude to You, God, for the numerous blessings with which You favor us every day.
For the blessings of life and health, of love and family, friends and community.
For the blessings of joy and laughter, meditation and peace, memory and hope.
For the blessings of the beauty of nature and its gifts, for our freedom and the blessings we enjoy in our country.
For the blessings of our heritage and our sacred days.
For the blessings we recognize and those which we fail to recognize.
For all these, O God, hear our thanks and accept our gratitude.
is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Munster, IN. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, and is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City for his years of dedicated service to the Conservative movement and the Jewish community...