Regal, elegant, and masked, the Rebbe made his way down
Still, the most rebbishe picture I’ve seen doesn’t feature any of those standbys. It’s got something new: something light blue that costs less than a dollar.
Other years, I showed my children the live feed of the Boyaner Rebbe’s Lag B’omer hadlakah in Meron as an example of how a person can have tens of thousands of eyes on him and yet be internally focused enough to show nothing, not to react or play to the crowd, not an extra shuckel or motion.
It was royalty.
This year, I showed them how a person usually surrounded by masses and now standing before a sparse crowd composed primarily of media people with “connections” can appear the exact same as in years past. Crowds or not, it made no difference, because he was so much bigger than the lights or bleachers or drama, alone with his thoughts and tefillos and kavanos as he extended a hand to light the fire.
And then, as he descended from the platform, he reached into his pocket and pulled out… a mask.
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