Words can betray us. I learnt this from the philosopher, Dr Tanya White, as she introduced her series on The Work of Becoming: Jewish Resilience through Biblical Narrative.
We are blessed with language to create order from chaos, to express the inexpressible. But words often cannot fully portray the depth of what we feel or what one has experienced.
When family and friends in Israel share about their current reality, they sometimes use the words “tough”, “challenging” or “very challenging”.
To those of us living over 2,000 miles away, these words cannot convey the depths of their painful reality, which I will betray with the following two dimensional sentences:
The sons, husbands, fathers, called for duty yet again
The wife waiting for his call
The mother and father…
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Source blogs.timesofisrael.com
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