An Alternative Al Heyt

Richard N. Levy

1985

For the wrong we did before You by listening to voices at odds with what we knew was right;
For the wrong we did before You by not listening to voices telling us unpleasant truths;
For the wrong we did before You by closing our ears to the poor and the hungry;
For the wrong we did before You by not working at relationships;
For the wrong we did…
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Creator Bio

Richard N. Levy

1937–2019

Richard N. Levy, a Reform rabbi, was born in Rochester, New York, and attended Harvard University. He was the director of the School of Rabbinic Studies at the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Levy was the architect of the 1999 Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism, known as the Pittsburgh Principles.

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