Oof! Why doesn’t she have any connections to wealthy donors? Doesn’t anybody have a philanthropic fund tucked away somewhere?
“People should really spend their time at the beach instead of in offices,” Nechami says.
“It just makes more sense.”
“Ha’adam lo nivra ela lehis’anag al Hashem,” Shua quotes. “We’re meant to take pleasure in knowing Hashem. It sounds like maybe you’re only relating to the lehis’anag part.”
“Why?” she protests. “What could be more of a gilui Shechinah than the ocean?”
And what could more of a gilui Shechinah than that moment at 5 a.m. when Shua said to her, “Come, I ordered a taxi. It’s coming in ten minutes. You said you wanted to go to the beach on Friday morning, no?”
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