Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
So, this week’s parashah is Parashat Lech Lecha, literally “Go to yourself” obviously translated as just Go. The command to leave country of birth and land where family lives, going just in one mostly nuclear group, ok, with a nephew as well as wife, and a large retinue, feels like an uprooting.
But what about folks with no spouse, and no retinue: how do those folks find family, and where is home, birth place or otherwise? How does one decide where home is when one has no family of origin, either due to abusive childhoods, or other reasons, and no place that calls to one as home? How does one even begin to find community, let alone family?
What would you do, and how would you decide where to go, Thoughtful Readers?
Would you trust the call, as Sojourner Truth did, saying that “The Spirit calls me, and…
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