Rabbi Meyer Yedid is showing how the power of a daf Gemara can reshape not only a person, but an entire community
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’m trying to write, but the quiet is unnerving because suddenly after months of talking, talking, talking, everyone’s out of words.
Montreal, where I live, is a few hours away from going into total lockdown — stores, schools, everything. They are threatening a curfew and under the game faces and forced joviality, there is genuine panic.
Maybe not panic, but certainly not calm because how tranquil can you be when you really have no control over anything? Oh, and you have to smile for the children!
Those feelings were swimming around my consciousness when I got to the last chapters of a book by Rabbi Meyer Yedid, entitled The Power of Tranquility (ArtScroll/Mesorah) and near the end, I bumped into this reflection.
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