There is an oceanic pain-knowing, a tide no soul should ever be made to swim against.
A lot of what you are seeing in the world right now is a collective re-triggering of old wounds, in a constant onslaught.
In a world seemingly absent of Soul, what’s the point of Peoplehood, anyway?
That was my life now. Blank. I was diving into the scary unknown and for the first time in my life I was not going to have a say on my future. So I deflated my ego down to 6 words.
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This practice of our particular brand of loving is an unnerving and relentless remembering.
There was something different about us, those whose parents came to halachic Judaism later in life -- and I wondered if it was just me who noticed it.
I needed to find the meaning in all this. I found two rabbis who comforted me, one from the Talmud, and one from Ohio.