The tallit has four corners. We are commanded to gather them.
To take what is spread out and hold it, all at once.
The Jewish year holds every season: the narrow place and the open one, the weeping and the dancing, the roof woven with gaps on purpose so the stars come through.
We are not asked to be one thing at a time.
The world has not always known what to do with people who refuse to be one thing.
Kanfot ha’aretz — the corners of the earth, gathered in.
We who grieved this year and celebrated this year are whole.
We belong here, and also there.
Gather the corners. You are not too much to hold.
