The pandemic hovers over us. It is a wakeup call for serious repentance, serious prayer, serious tzedakah
F
amous Jewish parable: Children playing hide-and-seek. One child in corner is weeping. Why are you crying? Because when I hide, no one comes looking for me.
Where will we have the Purim seudah this year? With or without corona masks? With or without family? These and many other concerns — Purim this year occurring on a Friday, necessitating the Purim seudah before the Shabbos seudah, intertwined with sending mishloach manos, hearing the Megillah, giving matanos l’evyonim, trying to fulfill ad delo yada properly, all while preparing for Shabbos — threaten to obscure the underlying message of Purim.