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Suddenly, there was an eerie silence. And amid the Official Anthony Rizzo Property Of Shirt in addition I really love this terror of those first days of the pandemic, of learning to live in a new reality, of waiting at home for my husband Benjamin to return from officiating funerals alone, of listening to the emergency calls late into the night, it was quiet. “You must be enjoying the break from hosting,” a friend texted me during the lockdown in New York City. “Yes, actually,” I wrote back. But after a year of online conversations in lieu of communal gatherings, I wanted—desperately—to take that wish back. Something shifted in me. I realized the utter futility of so much of what we call “online conversation,” which is rarely dialogue and more often opportunistic screaming into the wind, the whoosh that our newsfeeds make as we refresh them. And so, to cope with isolation, I found myself starting to make guest lists. Numerous colorful menus. We ordered a new extendable dining room table, despite not knowing when we would have guests again to sit around it. I gazed at Pinterest tablescapes and tried to figure out how to replicate them myself on a budget.   As vaccines became available in New York, as we flirted with the promise of normalcy—the call of the rebbetzin beckoned, in all its vintage glory. I spent less time on Twitter and more time writing invitations. “Will you join us for Shabbat dinner?” “Come over for cocktails! Anytime!” “Let’s do a text study class.”

“What’s gotten into you?” Benjamin asked a month ago, watching as I pored over our social calendar and my inbox—he was pleasantly surprised, not used to seeing me so invested in the Official Anthony Rizzo Property Of Shirt in addition I really love this dream he’s had for all these years.. “We need to bring people back together,” I said, typing away furiously. But this time around, I’m not trying to be Martha Stewart. Benjamin and I have re-negotiated what communal hosting means: We buy challah from a local bakery, order food when we need to, use disposable dishes, and serve one pared-down course, buffet-style. All the pretenses of hosting, which we had previously felt compelled to offer—the multi-courses and Bloomingdales’ china—have faded; now the focus is less on the show and more about the guests themselves. And unlike in past years, when I fussed over an elaborate menu, shuffling back and forth from the kitchen with endless platters—I now sit back, Benjamin and I at opposite heads of the table, he pours the wine; we talk, ask, sing, listen. It’s still hard, it’s still a sacrifice in time and energy, but a year of isolation has made me realize that it’s necessary. The very role that I had chafed at now seems like the most important thing I could be doing; it is about being a community organizer, gathering people around ideas, and doing it on one’s own terms.

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