Human beings have an endless capacity to adopt to trying circumstances – especially when it’s other people who are suffering.
But scroll down any news site today, and grim corona statistics mix with controversies about outdoor minyanim – and one advert after another featuring yesomim funds.
Those sweet pictures of once happy families now shattered by the death of a father or mother are the starkest reminder of what’s gone wrong.
Because on a scale that our generation has never seen, hundreds of children have been orphaned almost overnight, in communities from New York to London.
Those pictures and statistics are hard to digest – how much bad news, after all, can a person bear? But it’s precisely because they’re so bad that it’s important to keep looking at them.
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