Sarah Pattison

The Circle relies on deep listening. In the words of Roots founders Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Ali Abu Awwad: “Listen until it hurts. And then listen more.” What does this mean? Listen for information that challenges your own assumptions. Listen with your wide-open heart, putting yourself in the shoes of the other. Listen from the future and from the whole. What’s wanting to come through this circle of ours? How are we a small vessel of the highest potential future for Israelis/Palestinians? If…