FOR ABOUT A year now, I have been going for an early morning walk, kind of my pre-dovening hisbodedus (meditation).

WE MADE it, thank God. We’ve made it to another Pesach, something most of us just took for granted two years ago would always be the case.

WE WERE born to be free. Does anyone like slavery? Sadly, some can’t escape it, and perhaps even more tragically, some have come to accept it.

WHO LIKES change? It depends. If someone likes their current situation, then change is not welcome.

IT WAS just on Parashas Mishpatim that we read the section about Machatzis HaShekel as Maftir for Parashas Shekalim.