The Passover Village Community has continued to meet online. In the early months of the pandemic, we meet weekly via teleconference to provide support to each other. Our meetings have gradually returned to monthly online gatherings to study Torah and be in Council.
We have also gathered for holiday observances; most recently for hanukah. Each household shared the light of its menorah to dispel the darkness and unite us.
We have also gathered online to hold shiva for a dear member of the Village. This week, we also conducted a virtual taharah (purification) ritual for the father of community members. The father's death from Covid made it unsafe for us to gather in person for taharah, so we drew upon our traditions to symbolically bath and dress the body for burial. This is what community does for its members.
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