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If not now, tell me when

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About the Song

From her 2019 album "Point of Arrival" https://open.spotify.com/album/5Ue0Rp...

"Hope is holding in creative tension all that is, with everything that could and should be, and each day taking some action to narrow the distance between the two."
-Parker J. Palmer

The title is derived from the writings of Hillel, the Elder in the section of the Talmud called Pirkei Avot ("Ethics of the Ancestors"):

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being only for myself, what am 'I'? And if not now, when?"

The 4th video below was part of a longer program on "Music for Justice - Accompaniment" that was broadcast on YouTube on August 5, 2020. You can watch the full program here