We’re Still Holding On

The heart clenches when bad news is shared, shutting tight and refusing to acknowledge what it is hearing.

But when the news is good, the air joyous and festive? Then the heart expands and opens wide, ready to take it all in.

And then, when the heart is so open, the bad news that comes hits like a hammer blow, for it goes straight in.

It’s happened before. The Mishkan was complete and the Shechinah hovered and the joy was tangible and the world was perfect and just like that, Aharon HaKohein, center of the simchah, lost his two sons.