Barbara: Thursday
Posted on | December 4, 2008 | No Comments
The work week ends on Thursday and there’s a lot to finish up. I go to a Torah study class, then spend the night listening to favorite music and cooking. As usual, we expect a dozen guests for Shabbat. Tonight, my son-in-law Daniel Zamir and his jazz quartet are playing a benefit concert for the family of captured Israeli serviceman Gilad Shalit, in captivity in Gaza.
In Hebron, the army has evacuated the disputed home. In Afula, a town in the North, both the families of Gavriel and Rivka Hertzberg are sitting shiva, seven days of sitting on small chairs and receiving those who comfort them. But even mourning takes a break on Shabbat, from Friday night to Saturday night. As the week comes to an end, our pace changes. Tomorrow night I will wear white clothes and go to my synagogue, join with hundreds of others in the harmonious singing that welcomes the Sabbath, like a bride, into our hearts.
From Jerusalem,
Barbara Sofer
