A Moment of Radical Normalcy
© Rabbi Menachem Creditor
I stood on my porch,
set to embark on
pilgrimage to Israel,
when a family
from my neighborhood walked by.
Their hijabs made me pause.
What if they and I
could be loving neighbors
not only here,
but in our lands of promise?
As I wondered,
one of them called out,
"Shalom, "
to which I replied:
"a salaam aleikum."
The children
who are my neighbors
peeked over my fence,
asking their mothers,
"who wished us peace?"
My heart broke with
one simple truth:
I do.
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