When the pandemic began, some people started baking bread. My family started studying Torah. Week by week, portion by portion, we began making our way through the five books of Moses, and then the books of the prophets and the sacred writings. Being a rabbinical student, Torah study was already a regular part of my daily life. For my father, aunt, uncle and brother, however, the unmediated Hebrew Bible was foreign territory. In a different sense, this was foreign territory for me as well. After seven years in Tel Aviv, I had become an absent presence in my own family...
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