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Purim is almost upon us the last Jewish holiday that most of us celebrated in person last year, before the pandemic started keeping us apart. It s a tough anniversary. A year since we started staying apart to protect each other. It feels like forever. We celebrate Purim with costumes and masks masks, for sure, mean something different now than they ever did before. We celebrate topsy-turviness but what does it mean to do that when our whole world feels turned upside-down?
Those were some of the questions animating the members of Bayit s Liturgical Arts Working Group. I think you ll see them in our fifth collection of prayer and poetry and artwork, which we just released today. My main contribution (aside from convening the group!) is a poem about Esther and us, quarantine and saving lives and loss. I also wrote one of the short pieces in our seven-part Last Purim series, reflecting on what Purim was like before covid, a year (or maybe a lifetime) ago.