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Elizabeth is a Jerusalemite with a Rebbe Nachman-stickered laptop and a melody filling her heart. An aspiring “creative soul,” Liz can be found studying Talmud and doodling endlessly in the margins. An empathy enthusiast, she is driven equally by curiosity and free coffee.
Keep calm and...feel G-d's mysterious presence within the chaos?
And so I go. Around the corner, the incline lighting up my thigh muscles, I adlib my usual muttered warrior pep-talk, declaring that I can do it. I can climb this; I can take this time. I can do nothing now. I can do Nothing now.
I don't really understand Talmud, but sometimes it speaks to me in ways I can't ignore.
Prayer, panic, and politics, in a poem.
Maybe one person's "crazy" is another's speed-dial to G-d.
It's not all Eurovision and hummus, but it's a lot of Eurovision and hummus.
Elizabeth considers the challenges of memory and commemoration, all from the standpoint of her Jerusalem balcony.
