Was I Doing Kiruv All Wrong?
As Rosh Hashana of this very strange year approaches, it is time for introspection and thinking of perhaps making some changes. This unprecedented year, as has been endlessly commented upon, has been mostly a disaster. We stand before Unetaneh Tokef once again and – as never before in my lifetime – wonder who will live, who will die; will it be in a calamity, or a plague, or by trouble breathing … who will be at peace and who will be subject to riots. How can we – how should we – pray differently; is that what is needed so that this coming year will be better? I find myself repeatedly saying that if we learned nothing else from the Coronavirus, it is that we really truly do not know. We don’t know anything. We do not know why things happen, and indeed what will happen or when or why. All the great predictions made at the beginning of the pandemic lie broken before us. Society around us is in tatters. We really do not know...