A picture speaks a thousand words:

The Rav, with his Torah, which was finally handed over to him yesterday, just as the ‘war ended’…

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Thanks to everyone who helped to make the Sefer Torah a reality.

I don’t know what happens  next, honestly – no-one does.

But, I have a very deep feeling that something huge has shifted since Rosh Hashana. At least, that’s been my experience within my own dalet amot. For example, I decided to stand up to someone who has been bullying me for a very long time, and to not let them do that any more.

And I’m also seeing big shifts in other friendships, where the emphasis has been skewed far too much in me being ‘Mrs CoDependent’ and just acting like an unpaid shrink.

BH, after Sukkot I plan to start writing way, way more about things like emotional neglect and how negative, toxic relationships can mamash cut a person off from God, and a real, loving connection with themselves.

In the meantime, chag sameach, everyone.

BH, we will have a very joyful chag, a ‘rectified experience’ for what happened two years ago.

And some hope in our hearts that regardless of all of Esav’s machinations, God has never abandoned His people to their designs. Just, we need to make some serious teshuva on our bad middot, and come under the sheltering tallit of the Tzaddik HaDor.

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