“Vayikra”—we are called (freely translated) Lev. 1:1-5:26 — Isa. 43:21–44:23.
The world in chaos is the very definition of history in our hands, depending upon how we respond.
History records volunteers in every imaginable endeavor, building networks of hard-working organizations, and as individuals — process-focused, hands-on, thoughtful, determined, united and energetic, up from the earth and across it, with sleeves rolled up and dirt under our fingernails. History records women of every nation and culture, rising up together, shoulder to shoulder, street by street, and door to door, to do what needs to be done, in peace and in war.
With clouds of storm overhead and terror raining down on innocents, it is the more the best time to be alive —Shehekhiyanu, v’kiymanu, v’higgiyanu la’zman hazeh—because time and tide have brought us to where we can be grateful that truly every one of us and everything we can do counts.
