Welcome to My Virtual Home!

We’ve reached the end of our first week of classes during what will surely go down as one of the strangest years of HUC’s history. In all the Zoom classes—none of which could have been predicted or were what we had hoped for—we may yet find something altogether unexpected and special. It used to be that we were most likely to be invited into each other’s homes only on days such as today, Shabbat. Now, most of us have the opportunity to visit on an almost daily basis.

As COVID-19 has taught us, our relationships with each other (and HUC) are about so much more than physical spaces. The homes from which we video chat—into which we invite our peers, students, professors, coworkers—are more than locations. They offer glimpses into a more holistic sense of our selves. The children, spouses, pets, and more we see on the other end of our computer monitors offers us a refreshing understanding of our partners in work and study in a truly precious way. As these months roll on, even as they may feel somewhat isolating, we should remember that we have been given an entirely novel way to acquaint ourselves with each other. This is a blessing in and of itself.