The truth was very far from the facade of composure that appeared on the screen daily
Yitzchok remembers the day well.
It was on Shabbos, March 14. Yitzchok went to shul early to learn. He noticed Dr. Goldberg coming toward him. Dr. Goldberg asked if he had been in a different shul the night before. Yitzchok confirmed that he was.
It was then that Yitzchok first heard the words that would soon become part of everyone’s lexicon. “There was someone at that shul who has the coronavirus. I need you to quarantine and go home.”
Little did Yitzchok realize that the next time he would daven with a minyan would be June 13.
He could never have imagined that the shul would shut down from that Shabbos for the next hundred days. That over the next few days, the entire country would shut down.
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