Rabbi Elka Abrahamson, who is President of the Wexner Foundation and one of my beloved teachers, recently concluded a group email with the words "Be healthy. Be safe. Be kind." I pray that each of you is remaining healthy and safe. I also appreciate Rabbi Abrahamson's reminder that during these challenging times, kindness is just as important, and perhaps requires just as much energy, as health and safety.

The other day, your rabbi was making some challah toast for herself. August is watching, totally rapt. I come in the kitchen and he says to me, with authentic astonishment in his voice, “Daddy, Mommy can cut bread! Look, she’s cutting bread! Did you know that Mommy can cut bread?!”

As our previous schedules and routines have been disrupted and we remain in the same place most of the time, the days sometimes lose their differentiation, and we ask whether today is a work day or day off, Monday or Wednesday, whether it is morning or afternoon, and as we look out the window at snow capped daffodils, whether it is spring or winter. In these moments I am especially grateful for Judaism's rituals and reminders that separate time.

We are all asking questions. As Rabbi Neil Gillman has pointed out, we ask questions, and especially theological ones, when our familiar patterns are disturbed. Over the past month, and particularly as we celebrate a holiday that was supposed to feel familiar, our questions have intensified. We ask what is expected of us. We ask when everything will be normal again. We ask why God allows good people to suffer. And some of us face this holiday with tremendous pain and ask why God allowed our loved one to die.

Judaism is about choices. Jewish texts, and the laws we draw from them, can instruct us in almost every moment of our lives. Sometimes, that can be empowering. We often have the power to choose whether to treat someone with kindness, how we spend our time, how we spend our money, whether to put someone else's needs over our own, or not.

On March 9 at 6pm, I invite you to have fun, and change everything. We are confronted every day with news about illness, war, and cruelty. We need to take them very seriously. And sometimes we also need a day of disruption to believe that we can disrupt the world's challenges