Thursday, September 17, 2020

Prayers in the Park

 



If I stay healthy and don’t have to enter into isolation, this is where I’ll be praying on Rosh Hashanah 5781.  My husband has been working hard to put up lighting, shade, and dividers. Others are struggling to make sure we have willing volunteers to lead our services, read from the Torah, and blow the shofar. I’ve bought a sun hat and mosquito repellent. It will be a very different Rosh Hashanah from years past. And as much as we miss those Rosh Hashanahs perhaps the longing for the past will help us focus our prayers on the future. A future in which we can make ourselves better people and a better world. A future in which we’ll have true redemption.  Next year may we be able to pray at the Holy Temple, together, without masks, and stand close to one another without fear.

May we all be signed and sealed for only good.

1 comment:

Ariela ben-Eliezer said...

amen. short and to the point.
shana tova, healthy & sweet with bracha & hatzlacha and NO FACEMASKS.