Standing in the Flood / Erev Rosh Hashanah 5784
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What Sarah does every hour in the Tenderloin every day is what Amir did at the Qalandia checkpoint is what my mom did for Sheldon and his sons.
When floods came, when waters rose, when trauma or danger or peril forced their way to the front. These tzaddikim mimicked the Holy One when, God-like, they stayed put and present and proximate, and simply let a love from On High pulse through their every action.
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