Human beings have an endless capacity to adopt to trying circumstances – especially when it’s other people who are suffering.
he corona calamity can be measured in many ways, but one is the adverts on frum news sites. In those long-off pre-Purim days when corona was just something that was causing Chabad shluchim in China to close shop, all the normal concerns of frum society – sales, clothes, cars, yeshiva dinners, shiurim, politics, new books – were reflected in the ads.
But scroll down any news site today, and grim corona statistics mix with controversies about outdoor minyanim – and one advert after another featuring yesomim funds.
Those sweet pictures of once happy families now shattered by the death of a father or mother are the starkest reminder of what’s gone wrong.
Because on a scale that our generation has never seen, hundreds of children have been orphaned almost overnight, in communities from New York to London.
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