The Masks We Wear
Dear Friends, Sorry to disappoint you but there will be no song lyrics in this blog:-) I want to talk about masks. Recently, I was giving a presentation at a local retirement facility about the masks we wear and how we celebrate a day on which we wear masks and go trick or treating. I talked about the day on which Jewish people wear masks, which is our holiday of Purim. Please do a search and learn more about this holiday in the Jewish calendar. We had a discussion about the reference to Yom Kippur as Yom Kippurim, a day like Purim where we also wear masks including wearing the mask of being a pious person who sincerely wants to be forgiven How many of us are sincere in our desire to be forgiven and how many of us are only wearing a mask? Our discussion included asking the residents to talk about the masks they wear. One of the residents emotionally described how she wore a "polite" mask and never told people how she felt. As she described this, it was revealing to