GREAT READS → SHUL WITH A VIEW Issue 849 · February 17, 2021

Let Our Reach Exceed Our Grasp   

There is something particularly painful about Yosef’s passing

Let Our Reach Exceed Our Grasp   

 

Challenging emotional experiences are a constant in the life of a rabbi.

However, the ten-week period beginning after Yom Kippur and climaxing on Erev Chanukah made me realize just how onerous and distressing life can be.

Immediately following Yom Kippur, the COVID virus invaded my body, leaving me fatigued and listless.

On Succos, I suffered from horrific back pain, which ultimately made my left knee begin buckling, and I began to regularly fall to the ground, hard and fast and uncontrollably.

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