GREAT READS → FLASHBACK Issue 891 · December 22, 2021

Flashback — Musings: The Present, Issue 673 

They’ll see and learn what marriage is. They’ll see how we give. They’ll see how we receive

Flashback — Musings: The Present, Issue 673 

I open it tentatively.

A new siddur.

But I have a siddur.

I love my old siddur. We’ve been together for more years than I can remember.

I don’t want a new one.

The children are watching, the rift of rejection is hanging over us.

They’ll see who I am, what I do. They’ll see and learn what marriage is. They’ll see how we give. They’ll see how we receive.

I pause for a second and smile. “Wow!” I say, “I love it.”

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