What is the connection between the coronavirus pandemic and Sukkot?
Coronavirus exposes the contingency of human existence — its limitations, arbitrariness and randomness and above all the fact that we depend on factors beyond our control.
Worshipers pray holding the Four Species – palm leaf stalk, citrus, myrtle and willow branch – in a public park in Efrat, October 2020.(photo credit: GERSHON ELINSON/FLASH90)BySHLOMO FISCHER
