The Sling by Rabbi Hirshy Minkowitz
Question: Imagine you are right handed and you suffer a bad fall on your right side. You end up with torn ligaments in your shoulder and the doctor says you need to wear a sling and cannot use the arm for a week. You are right handed so now it becomes difficult to write, drive, text, email, etc.
How are you supposed to go on with your regular day to day functioning with your primary arm immobilized?
I thought about this all week since a fall last Wednesday put me in this exact predicament. And of course the allegory and metaphor associated with this was swimming in my mind all week. What does one do when their figurative right arm is unavailable? When the thing they rely on most for so many of their basic functions and survivals is simply not there? How is it even possible to continue?
My life the last four months was relived in a metaphoric microcosm the last eight days.
And then I discovered the answer, it was a very simple and short one, and it applied to the last four months as it did to the last week.
Answer: You learn to use your left arm.
As you consider the year that is almost passed, how have you “learned to use your left arm?”
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