1/ Rabbi Ruttenberg is correct that Purim was the transition point when we all felt we were soon/already under siege (how [un] ironic!).
For me though it's parshat Beshalach, this week, that I constantly go back to in my mindscape of "The Before Times"
For me though it's parshat Beshalach, this week, that I constantly go back to in my mindscape of "The Before Times"
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2/ It's personal, of course.
Last year, this parsha was the Bat Mitzvah for my niece. My family spent Shabbat in White Plains and the whole experience was special and also super-strange (it was in a Conservative temple so I had to juggle going to early minyan etc)
Last year, this parsha was the Bat Mitzvah for my niece. My family spent Shabbat in White Plains and the whole experience was special and also super-strange (it was in a Conservative temple so I had to juggle going to early minyan etc)
3/ For the past year of pandemic, whenever my mind travels back to "what was normal" I go to that Shabbat. It was with my in-laws, it was a new community, the temple rabbis and I are friends so that made it even more fun/memorable.
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4/ It was a special Shabbat even without 2020's nightmare, but in contrast with the quarantine, deprivation, isolation - even loneliness - of the past year, it has loomed in my emotional memory as The Last Real Thing.
5/ So reaching this Shabbat one year later is extra poignant. I feel I've weathered the difficulties well; I'm pretty well made for isolation and living in my head, but reaching #Beshalach one year later has crashed down on me to recognize how much has changed.
6/ I'm sure you all have similar events.
I feel we're like soldiers in the field, a year from home, remembering the apple tree outside their house, or a school dance, something of "home." That cliché. But all clichés start out as deeply true.
I feel we're like soldiers in the field, a year from home, remembering the apple tree outside their house, or a school dance, something of "home." That cliché. But all clichés start out as deeply true.
7/ At the time, I knew the Shabbat would be special, with how proud I was for my niece & her parents, my wife's family being as together as possible, & seeing my friends in their leadership roles. So I'm glad it's my last memory of when times were favorable and normal.
8/ #ShabbatShalom. Happy #ShabbatShira.
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