Lessons for the Pandemic (and after the Pandemic)
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Title
Lessons for the Pandemic (and after the Pandemic)
Description
The very next episode in the book of Genesis is the story of the tower of Babel. The Midrash and our commentators teach that the towers of Babel were built as a faulty human attempt to hold the heavens from pouring down rain ever again. The generation of Babel, both traumatized and drunk with power, thought they would be able to control any future flood. Friends, I am so scared of a post‐Covid world – a traumatized world drunk with power, a Babel world obsessed with the externals of the next pandemic and or crisis, and neglectful of the internal lessons the previous pandemic imparted to us.
Subject
Analogies to Mythic Narratives
has community
Congregation Beth Israel
Spatial Coverage
Berkeley, CA, USA
has denomination
Orthodox Judaism
Date Submitted
11/28/2020 16:20
