Isolated Together 

I feel like my world has turned upside down. I heard today from my rebbeim that we need to close our shul. In my wildest dreams or nightmares, I could not have imagined such a scenario…

The motto of our shul is “One family growing together.” We need to now find new ways for our family to grow together. And we will. We will daven together in other ways. We will learn together in other ways. And we will grow together in other ways, as a family like always.

I’d held it together all through the whirlwind school closings and scary news reports, but this put me over the edge, and I burst into tears. How could our beloved shul be closing? The thought of the building that was so much more than just a building being shuttered was just too much to bear.

Within what seemed to be mere minutes, my husband got a phone call. From the Rav. “Just checking in on you, wanted to make sure you’re doing okay, and if there’s anything I can do for you.”