Strengths We’d Never Known

It’s not the picture as much as the whole story.

For the better part of a year, there is a song that plays in my mind, one of those unusually perfect shidduchim of lyric/tune/singer.

“ ’Cause a Yid never breaks/and a Yid never bends/and a Yid never gives up in the night…” (Mrs. C. Neuhaus, “A Yid,” sung by Benny Friedman.)

It helped us through a difficult year of lockdown and restrictions and upticks, just when it seemed like life might open again.