A Journey South
One commonality shared between Judaism and much of East Asia: the lunar calendar. Sunday night I looked up at the nearly-full moon and the first thought that came to my mind was that the month of Av was scarcely more than two weeks away, with its major fast day on the Ninth in commemoration of the destruction of the Temple, and the subsequent seven-week countdown to the High Holiday season. (To any of my rabbi friends reading this: sorry for the inevitable blood pressure spike). In short: Yom Kippur is coming!
The Day of Atonement has been on my mind a great deal this week. As a memory scholar, there was one place in Japan that I wanted to go above all others, one place that my friend informed me she would not accompany me. That place, of course, was Hiroshima.
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Much That Is Fair 