CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KIBBUTZ GALUYOT
Suri Davis
Sunny daze everything’s a okay…
As I prepare for my son’s wedding, my other sons are coming in from Israel
My daughter is coming home with her new husband
The wedding is on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year
Relatives are coming near and far
Preparing for ten days of festivities.
Third pandemic wave wedding, kh
Keeping festivities Covid-concerned and small and intimate
The Torah portion of B’haalotchah, when you rise up to light the candelabra in the holy temple
Discusses the blowing of the trumpet when bringing a sacrifice in the holy temple
Coming together of the Jews in the holy temple for the festival of Passover
Oh the joy of the ingathering.
My son asked me today why I didn’t set a seat for myself and honestly
The joy of going around the room and seeing and greeting family and friends is so very exciting
Adding to the joy
Opportunity to rejoice and meet and greet.
Two weeks ago, I went to the Yeshiva University graduation ceremony for my son
And I saw my youth flash in front of me as my old college friends returned to graduate
Their children, and we reminisced the 35 years which have passed that made us grandparents
Caught up and exchanged numbers and email addresses and promised to befriend each other on Facebook so we could be more in touch.
Four generations of family
The loss of my father, the joy of completing shas.
The pandemic limiting festivities, the addition of my granddaughter, my daughters in law and son in law.
The lavender, rosemary, sage, grapes, berries have burst onto the scene so marvelously colorful
We have to gulp in our summer hours, revel in the joy of these warm long days, sitting on the Adirondack chairs, sipping iced tea and watching the block children bike, scooter, run and tumble and fly.
I wonder why I haven’t yet moved to Florida to enjoy this weather year-round,
I remind myself I might take it for granted if warm days were the norm and not rare.
Summer, wating with bated breathe for its arrival during short cold winter days
If we ate latkes and donuts daily, we wouldn’t chortle with joy when Chanukkah came.
Matzoh Brie takes amazing the eight days of Pesach, but not a day longer, lol.
Thank you G-d for the summer again, and for my kibbutz galuyot, may we as a worldwide
Community merit the true communal kibbutz galuyot with the coming of the Messiah
Speedily in our days.
Shabbat shalom.
-Suri