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I sat in synagogue Saturday morning staring up at the stained-glass star above the bima, first through my left eye, then my right. They see differently now. On the left the light a gentle yellow. On the right, startlingly blue, as if a fluorescent fixture had been switched on. So easy to say there’s more than one way to look at things. I can never follow the prayers and forget kaddish is part of each service, the prayer for the dead, sorrow amid joy—always both.
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