הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ ה' אֵלֶיךָ וְנָשׁוּבָה, חַדֵּשׁ יָמֵינוּ כְּקֶדֶם. Bring us back to You, HaShem, and we shall return; renew our days as at the beginning.
(Eikha 5.21)
Hashiveynu - The desire to return is not to go backward, but to seek to close the circle and thus find wholeness again on the other side. As the poet puts it, “the last of earth left to discover is that which was the beginning”:
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