Post Yom Tov Blues
It’s a strange feeling when Simchas Torah ends. It feels like well, now what? No more Yom tov after a whole month of just going, going, going. Like finishing a marathon. One time I actually ran a 10K sure if wasn’t a marathon but it was my first time running that far and I was really down for the next few days. I felt like I did all this hard work and now it’s over. What did I do all this for? Climbing climbing climbing Bam Now what? Well now, I put up the laundry, I washed the dishes, I swept the floor, And made myself a hot cocoa on the stove. And as I look at my clean house and drink my hot cocoa I think, regular life is regular (Though is there really such a thing as regular?) But it’s still beautiful. And the beauty is in the regularity. The difference between ending Tishrei and finishing a marathon is that Tishrei is actually training for the marathon. That is, the marathon is the whole year. The purpose of Tishrei is to ...