Counting Days under "Lockdown" and the Blessing of Shabbat
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Counting Days under "Lockdown" and the Blessing of Shabbat
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Theodicy (C): COVID as call to action, repentance, and so on.
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Silver lining: Blessed, grateful, or upbeat about the pandemic
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But in these stressful weeks, I want to suggest something further. We all need our spiritual strength; Judaism has a three-thousand year-long history of resilience. Please think of parents, grandparents, family, friends, ancestors, teachers, Jewish and also not-Jewish, who have brought us blessing. I am hoping that their presence (virtual, like everything else at the moment) will be like hands above our head, and that their spirit and the humanity, wisdom, discipline and courage of our people will embrace us, willing us blessing, wishing us Shabbat Shalom.
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2022-12-13
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Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
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