Have you heard of Lucila Gamero de Medina? If you haven’t, I hadn’t either until this morning. I’m sharing a recent post from the GoFundMe here, and in it I think about Lucila in the context of Megillat Esther . . . because, you know, it was just Purim. If you read this post it would mean a lot (a lot a lot a lot) if you’d share a quick comment.
Read MoreShe’ll do this hard thing, but she’ll do it her way, not Mordechai’s.
“Go, assemble all the Jews who live in Shushan, and fast on my behalf; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens will observe the same fast. Then I shall go to the king, though it is contrary to the law; and if I am to perish, I shall perish!” Esther 4:15
Saying, "It's Tisha B'Av" is a little like saying, "It's 9/11." Tisha = 9th. Av is the month we are in. It's a date. This date is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. The. If you haven't heard of it, I get it, and it might be the biggest day you've never heard of.
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This year, informed by Nowruz and in observance of Purim, let’s think about how we might reach out diplomatically with the intention to increase love and friendship between ourselves and others.
