Seven Weeks

I've been visiting friends Sukkahs as well sitting in our own Sukkah. To quote Michael Berenbaum, there is the absence of presence and the presence of absence. Judah is missing, and Judah is here at the same time. The sukkah was his place to leisurely read the newspaper, gather himself together to go to services and have his friends come over for a meal. He would take the lulov and estrog, use the old siddur that Benji got from Akiba in the second grade.

Seven weeks, 49 days, an endless gap between then and now.


Martha