Echoes of Purim in Post Pandemic Visions Of the top questions so many of us have been asking ourselves these past months, there is a genre of which we are all too familiar. I like to call it the “what happens after” questions--What will it be like when this is all over? What will the world look like? What will our world and our communities take with them? What will we learn?? In March 2020, Alexis Valdes penned a poem “When the Storm Passes-Hope” that took a stab at depicting a vision for a post-pandemic world. While the entire poem (translated from the Spanish) can be found at the end of this blog, below are a few reflections on key elements of this most powerful poem that can teach us much about both Purim and our post pandemic vision. “When the storm passes…..collective shipwreck” The storm of the pandemic has been a decree on the entire global community. Yet, “[w]e are in the same storm, but not in the same boat. Your ship can be shipwrecked and mine might not be. Or vice vers
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