When everyone in the States heard about it, they all asked the same thing: “Are you coming back?”
“When in life have you finally felt like you were ‘there’?” they prompted.
I thought about the concept and then told them I had nothing to write. Home is just… home. I couldn’t think of any particular realization, any moment when I’d realized, “This is it.”
Then the first siren rang out as we were waking up on Simchas Torah.
And the second as we were trying to leave to shul.
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