Making It Through Together – Published February 21, 2025 on SVARA
We are living in extraordinarily uncertain, destabilizing and disasterous times. Today, I am pleased to offer a piece recently published as part of the Hot Off The Shtender blog series at SVARA. I hope you find it meaningful in some way. It’s largely about remembering our interconnection and that even amidst existential despair, we belong to this world inherently.
When core conditioned beliefs tell us otherwise and when the political reality makes those conditioned beliefs feel absolutely true, we can choose to take a step back. We can tap back into our deepest knowing that despite all of the mounds of social conditioning and relentless noise that seeks to drill into many of us our outsider status, as if it’s immutable, we are infinitely precious.
May we remind each other of this truth. In my experience, remembering it is tough, but being reminded of it by others is a balm for the soul. Reach out to others you know who are hurting. Send a kind email, a word of encouragement, a hug. It really makes a difference.
As one of my teachers recently said, we live in the most technologically connected, yet socially disconnected culture any of us can imagine. I am setting a personal intention to reach out to someone each day I haven’t spoken with in a bit just to check in and let them know I’m thinking of them. These small intentions have a tremendous impact when we do them together.
I hope my piece provides some sense of connection in this terrible time. Please share it widely.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 