LeShana Tova (dammit)
Sep. 18th, 2020 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaWishing everyone apples and honey, health and sweetness in the new year.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's memory for a blessing. For justice.
All I can do with news like this is take a breath. And another breath. And another breath. There is such a spike of fear about the future that I have to narrow my focus to the immediate present.
I keep saying it's time for things to start getting better. Portland's air quality just came down out of the hazardous zone for the first time in a week, and now this.
Another breath.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's memory for a blessing. For justice.
All I can do with news like this is take a breath. And another breath. And another breath. There is such a spike of fear about the future that I have to narrow my focus to the immediate present.
I keep saying it's time for things to start getting better. Portland's air quality just came down out of the hazardous zone for the first time in a week, and now this.
Another breath.
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Date: 2020-09-19 11:52 pm (UTC)Sending you clear air and apples and honey and here, another breath.
RBG such a tzadik!
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Date: 2020-09-20 03:08 am (UTC)PS and yes, now that I found out a tzadik is a person of righteousness who dies on Rosh Hashanah, agreed!
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Date: 2020-09-20 05:03 pm (UTC)Indeed, for once I turned to Chabad for a helpful definition
Yet the most special thing about a tzaddik is that {they} really is the most human of human beings.
I appreciated her life even more with this collection of nifty anecdotes from The Forward
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Date: 2020-09-21 08:22 pm (UTC)I had so many "Yes, buts..." on the Chabad definition. Making it gender-neutral as you did in your quoted title would be a good start. I like the idea of correcting someone who does harm so they can do good again.