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Matir Asurim, Redeemer of captives
The One who has made me free
On this yarzheit
one year since the Bibas children returned home to be laid to rest
We pause to grieve
The lives taken far too soon – Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir
To mourn women and children whose lives are bound by violence
And to hope for a better world
where no parent places dirt on the grave of their child
May the One who frees the bound
unbind us from cycles of vengeance and despair
May we live to see a world where the torture of women, children, and families is never a tactic of war
A world where mothers hold their children close in love, not fear
May we be the ones to build it
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