With my voice gone, I was doomed to a life of isolation
MY story begins back in 2012, as I was finishing a degree in accounting at Lander College. I was learning with my chavrusa, and after a few hours I began to feel my voice getting tired. We paused for a bit and resumed learning afterward, and I didn’t think much of it.
But as time went on, I began experiencing voice fatigue more and more, with all my chavrusas. I would have to either take a break or ask that they do all the reading so I could rest my voice.
I had always loved singing in synagogue and the Shabbos table, and now I couldn’t sing as well as I used to.
“It looks like Hashem is taking away my singing voice so that I’ll have to start actually paying attention to the words,” I joked.
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