#264 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday February 2)
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Good morning! Andrea and I attended Friday night services last week, one week after the hostage taking at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. I was filled with many feelings as I sat there. Early in the service, a woman from the congregation stepped up to kindle the Sabbath candles. Watching her lighting of the candles made me reflect that this has been done by mothers and grandmothers for, quite literally, thousands of years. And as I had this thought, I also had the thought of how many women over how many generations felt unsafe in their own homes, fearful that antisemitism and violence might appear at their doorstep. Sadly, in each generation our people have had to confront antisemitism of one kind or another.
#264 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday February 2)
#264 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday…
#264 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday February 2)
Good morning! Andrea and I attended Friday night services last week, one week after the hostage taking at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. I was filled with many feelings as I sat there. Early in the service, a woman from the congregation stepped up to kindle the Sabbath candles. Watching her lighting of the candles made me reflect that this has been done by mothers and grandmothers for, quite literally, thousands of years. And as I had this thought, I also had the thought of how many women over how many generations felt unsafe in their own homes, fearful that antisemitism and violence might appear at their doorstep. Sadly, in each generation our people have had to confront antisemitism of one kind or another.