LONG READS Issue 826 · September 2, 2020

Hopes and Prayers

As the school bus approaches, parents share their dreams and fears

Hopes and Prayers

Project Coordinator: Rachel Bachrach

 

Rabbi Dov Brezak

 

To my dearest Moishie,

My love for you is so great that I cannot put it into words. I wish for your success even more than I wish for my own. Tomorrow you are going back to school, and I’d like to give you a short letter, with a tefillah that it help you see much success in this upcoming school year.

Moishie, this has not been a simple year. It’s been a coronavirus year. We’ve been together at home for so long, all of us. We’ve been afraid together, we’ve been upset together, we’ve been fighting, and we’ve gotten on each other’s nerves. We’ve also had fun together, we spent Pesach and Shavuos together, we davened together, and we even tried “going to school” together.

There were phone conferences and classes that we tried to get all of you to listen to, but it wasn’t easy, and it just wasn’t the same as being in school.

Now, b’chasdei Hashem, you’re returning to school for the new year. It’s not a regular new school year though — it’s a post-coronavirus year.

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