“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
-Lois Lowry, The Giver
A Hasid once asked his Rebbe, “What should we call the Shabbat prior to Shavuot? The Shabbat prior to Pesah is Shabbat Ha-Gadol (the Great Shabbat), and the Shabbat between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is Shabbat Shuvah (the Shabbat of Repentance).”1
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