Healing after a famine
5781 Imagine living through years of famine, starving, scared, not knowing when salvation will come, hoping, wondering, praying, and yearning for respite from a plague that has forced everyone to face their vulnerabilities every day. The ground underfoot parched, dry, cracked, brittle. Stories abound of people dying everywhere. Then, imagine a national plan. Imagine a leader who assumes responsibility to protect and save his subjects, citizens and immigrants alike. That leader recognizes visionary creativity in an incarcerated immigrant and elevates him to a position of power and authority to...