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Two Psalms for Hard Times You Won’t Find in Your Prayerbook

Rabbi Rachel Adler, Ph.D., is a theologian, striving to view profound questions of meaning through prisms of tradition. In this essay she turns to two psalms from the Hebrew Bible not included in liturgies of encouragement and comfort. She argues that Judaism in all its complexity offers articulations of deep anxiety, uncertainty and anger of which we may have need in these challenging times.