Crying Out for Help; Crying Out for Prayers
Parashat Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1–15:33)
By Rabbi Avi Strausberg`15, Director of National Learning Initiatives at Hadar
This past year has been a reckoning with isolation. As a result of the pandemic, many of us have been cut off from friends and family and forced, at worst, to go it alone, and at best to band together with a small group of family and friends until we are able to re-emerge on the other side of this. We have had to celebrate joys, mourn sadness, and struggle with illness without the support of the communities upon which we hold dear. The hope for many of us, however, is that this period of isolation, however painful and strange and long it has been, is temporary, and that soon, we can return to each other.
