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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.
In pandemic we did online grocery. Sometime we assumed that we are ordering a small squash. But we got a whole squash. We did not know how to cut it. My husband challenged himself to cut the vegetable. But the knife slipped and he cut his finger. It was a big mess. He suffered for 2 weeks. That night his bleeding scared us. We went to urgent care to get Tetanus injection. He got good tight bandage. That time people were scared to go to hospital. It was really scary situation, But we learned a lot and became stronger every day. In one year we know how cut whole chicken, whole pumpkin and watermelon. We learned lot of kitchen skills.
May 22, 2021
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Does this time of the year feel different than it normally does, or different than it should? If so, give some examples of what feels different.
This is the time of the Jewish holidays. The time of long hours in synagogue. The time of certain songs and tunes that, at least for me, make up the day. The time of gathering with friends and family. The time of communal rituals, and even dancing. And all that is not allowed. I can't get a ticket to shul - and even if I did, the service is shortened; there is not singing; there is not mingling. I sit and pray on my own. And due to the rules, I can't even have more than 5 people sit with me in my garden. I heard the shofar in the backyard. I won't get to dance with a Torah on Simchat Torah. I won't march with others for Hoshanot throughout Sukkot. I won't sit in the sukkah with friends. There are not group meals. Yom Kippur I will be fasting and being on my own. Somehow I am to make a Yizkor service three times, for no more than 5 people at a time. Create that sense of communal mourning as we are not really a number of a community. It is Tishrei. It is the time of all the holidays. Just everything feels likes it's in the individual instead of the community.
September 25, 2020