The need to make a material difference, to clean up a mess when your whole world feels dirty \u2013 this too, is a holy need. Picking up dirty napkins, in this context at least, is a sacred act. Perhaps in its own way, it is also another form of prayer, one in which, as in the Kaddish (memorial prayer for the dead), we attempt to argue order and goodness back into the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRAD HIRSCHFIELD: \u201cThe need to make a material difference, to clean up a mess when your whole world feels dirty \u2013 this too, is a holy need. Picking up dirty napkins, in this context at least, is a sacred act. Perhaps in its own way, it is also another form of prayer, one in which, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,43,45,63,192,199,216,248,267,272,279,308,414],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-action","tag-brad-hirschfield","tag-brooklyn","tag-child-murder","tag-jewish","tag-judaism","tag-leiby-kletzky","tag-murder","tag-on-faith","tag-pagan","tag-paganism","tag-prayer","tag-wapo"],"yoast_head":"\n
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