It goes without saying that life will never be the same. We are living through a moment in history unlike anything we’ve experienced in our lifetimes. And earth-shaking changes like this make most everything else seem trivial by comparison. There will be time to write and talk about other things soon enough (and I intend to, on this blog), but right now I just want to recognize this shift, that life as we knew it is behind us.
Among other things…shidduchim will be different after this. (Right now, as far as I’m concerned, shidduchim is just not a thing). It will be easier to believe that “hakol b’Yidei Shomayim,” everything is in the Hands of Heaven. It will be easier to believe that anything can change from one moment to the next. If I ever doubt that, I’ll have these weeks to look back on as proof that it’s so. In fact, I think a good idea would be to write a list of the ways your life is unexpectedly different than it was three weeks ago. And ways your expectations of life, of what “should” happen, have changed since three weeks ago.
There’s so much to say and yet nothing to say. Please, Hashem, send a complete yeshua to the many cholim who need Your rachamim. Please heal the families who need Your nechama. Please bring this plague to a swift end, and please send us the geulah very, very soon.
From now until Pesach, I do plan on posting some lighter content, along the lines of the blog before coronavirus. I hope you come back to visit!
