“So. It’s been a bit of a rough patch. Even if we set aside the insanity that is our 2020 political nightmare, the day-to-day challenges of job/family/dating/bills/fun(?)/laundry/climate change/etc., there’s that… other thing.
Yes. I am talking about COVID-19, the virus you already definitely know too much about. Scared? Me too. Skin rough from all the handwashing? Ditto. Having trouble focusing on everything else when everything else keeps getting canceled? Same.
We don’t know how this is going to end. We don’t know who will get it, how many will die, and how much our lives will change in response. Now, I’m not a doctor, epidemiologist, sociologist, or psychologist. I’m a rabbi. I’m someone who does a lot of thinking about how to hold communities in moments of joy, fear, and pain — and, often, how to hold communities experiencing multitudes.”
