Fueling for Liftoff from the Garden of Eden July and August were not filled with the usual type of adventures this year. This year’s days of summer were filled with guidelines, memos, Zooms and more Zooms -- all focusing on a most different opening of school, one that we could have never imagined. Orders of plexiglass, sanitizers and new room arrangements populated the to-do list in this summer like no other. And as I sat on the floor this Tisha B’Av on that hot summer evening, once again, maybe the most famous line from Eichah stood out. חַדֵּשׁ יָמֵינוּ כְּקֶדֶם “Make our days new, like they were before.” (5:21) It stood out because the word chadesh, is one that we seem to be using a lot these days. So many are saying that it is a “new world” or a “new reality.” But in Fall 2020 the word “new” takes on a much more complex meaning than ever before. Chadesh has the connotation of newness, of hope and of abandoning a past chapter and moving forward to bright new beginnings. B
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