Lessons for the Pandemic (and after the Pandemic) Rosh Hashanah 5781
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Lessons for the Pandemic (and after the Pandemic) Rosh Hashanah 5781
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Analogies to Mythic Narratives
Fear of the Future
Universality of the pandemic
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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.
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2022-12-13
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Yonatan Cohen
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