Monday - Rabbi Morley Feinstein, Emeritus
The American Psychological Association defines resilience as “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats and even significant sources of stress.” This is such a time.
The history of the Jewish people is about resilience. Jews have experienced extensive trauma and catastrophe and we have survived.
Humanity now faces its biggest health threat. We need to be resilient to face this pandemic. We need to find our inner personal and communal strength to be like a “twig with a fresh, green living core” that will spring back and continue to grow.
Tuesday - Ellie Laycook, Religious School Administrator
All of us have taken on more than we ever dreamed in this shut down. Working in a new environment, crisis school lessons at home, keeping a household running, entertaining our children, endless news cycles, cooking (how hungry can our kids really be?), cleaning, and finding new ways to connect to others. We weren’t given a choice, yet here we are surviving, thriving, and growing as a community. US is here for you.
Wednesday - Rabbi Morley Feinstein, Emeritus
99 years ago Henrietta Szold urged the first graduates of Israel’s Hadassah Nursing school to be “strictly truthful, conscientious, patient, tolerant, calm in self-evaluation, with balanced judgment and great strength.” Today on National Nurses Day we honor these angels who fulfill Szold’s charge. In Hebrew the word for nurse is also used for brother or sister. Let us honor these heroes as if they were members of our own family.
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