"People are thinking deeply about the big questions of life in a way that I have not seen in decades"
“Learning Mishnayos Taharos has always strained my imagination. What will the world look like when Mashiach comes and the complex world of tumah and taharah comes into place? We’ll have to think twice about the status of everything we touch and every person we encounter, so now I’m hoping we’ll be prepared and Mashiach will flip the darkness we are experiencing into a society of pure light.”
—Author and educator RABBI MENACHEM NISSEL
“More white hair. I never thought that we’d ever see the day when the whole Olam Hazeh would one day say, ‘Sorry, not today!’ It turns out that every single thing we take for granted about this world is so fragile and so fickle. We know it, but we never imagine that we’ll actually see it. And yet here we are. That’s a gain.”
—Singer BENNY FRIEDMAN
“In addition to weight, I gained a deep and profound appreciation of the little things, like the ability to daven with a minyan.”
—RABBI EFREM GOLDBERG, Boca Raton Synagogue
“My wife, and the amazing way she is dealing with all this.”
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