The synagogues were closed and all that was left was to pray within the nuclear family • Then it became clear to me how Jewish we were - even in my house it was difficult to find a uniform wording
Cycle, mask and Gush Etzion
If we had not decided to pray all this Yom Kippur at home, I might never have known that the boys would rather sing the piyyutim in an oriental melody, and only my daughter with me in the Polish hymns at the corner of Carlebach.
Efrat's synagogues have long been declared closed, and Google Docs with limited capsules has been moved to WhatsApp, but I decided that on this holiday it is possible to atone from the balcony.
Let's be a little Breslav, I told the four deep teenagers who had long since passed me at height, we would pray in front of the view even though the fast would be much easier without canvas shoes and dizziness from the stairs to the synagogue.
It started well.
When you are not in a hurry to the minyan, you can eat right up to the last second - because who will take your place when "all vows" take place in the living room;
It continued exciting as everyone came back from brushing their teeth dressed in white without my asking;
And it twisted creatively when it became clear how Jewish we are - it's hard to find a uniform wording for prayer even at home.
I did not expect to have to coordinate expectations for five people who have lived in excessive proximity for many years, but it turns out I was wrong.
Just as their orders at Burgers Bar are not the same, so their preferences in the Yom Kippur prayer are not equal.
We finished twice thirteen sizes and I asked for a time out.
The pink armchairs have become the psychologist's sofas - who likes to pray how and why.
45 minutes of discourse that did not cost 450 shekels, we sat down and built for ourselves a proper internal outline of prayers, attentive to every ethnic, tolerant and musical need.
I wondered about the gap between what I expect from the leadership and the assumption we found a solution here.
Parents and politicians are not the same thing, and probably your voters are a captive audience when you give birth to them.
We sailed safely, united, towards "our Father and King".
At the end of the Gabay prayer she announced that the morning prayer would begin according to the natural awakening.
Before we fell asleep, we immersed ourselves in four hours of board games.
In "Lock" we knew more than ever to appreciate the synagogue, but for the regular prayer I threaded one more: for next year with my built family.
To Talpiot.
