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Psalm Six lives in the practical Jewish imagination on the landscape of ordinary afternoons. Unless it is Shabbat, or a holiday, or the day before one of these, or the month of Nisan, or Tishrei, the Jewish prayer book for <\/span>minchah<\/span><\/em>, the afternoon service, includes a special short service called <\/span>tachanun<\/span><\/em>. This mini-service is to be recited after the <\/span>amidah<\/span><\/em>, the silent standing prayer, and before <\/span>aleinu<\/span><\/em>, the concluding prayer. <\/span>Tachanun <\/span><\/em>has four parts: Psalm Six; a three-part song called \u201cGuardian of Israel;\u201d the refrain of <\/span>Avinu Malkeinu<\/span><\/em>, \u201cOur Parent, Our Ruler;\u201d and a collection of verses from around the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

What has struck me in the past few months of Covid, never reciting <\/span>minchah<\/em> <\/span>with a minyan of nine other adult Jews, is the contrast between the individual cries of Psalm Six and the communal requests of the rest of <\/span>tachanun<\/span><\/em>. Psalm Six is profoundly singular: \u201csave ME;\u201d \u201cheal ME;\u201d \u201cdo not abandon ME;\u201d \u201cMY bones ache;\u201d \u201cMY pillow is drenched with tears.\u201d But after this lament, it is as if the tradition has an awakening to the realization that perhaps, in community, we might find salvation. <\/span>Avinu Malkeinu<\/em> <\/span>says: \u201cOUR Parent, OUR Ruler, be gracious to US and answer US, for WE are devoid of deeds; deal with US in loving righteousness and save US.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, all the verses in the final collection are all phrased in the first-person plural. We transition from the desperation of our lonely sinfulness and anguish to the promise of being jointly redeemed and saved. Even saying <\/span>tachanun<\/em> <\/span>during Covid, I have found solace in this communal language. I can hear the deeply profound voice of the tradition speaking an honest but ultimately consoling message.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our suffering as individuals are real and painful.\u00a0 Yet we, as a community \u2013 Jewish, and human \u2013 will endure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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