Today, at Merkaz HaRav Kook: 

Today begins the [second] Jewish month of Adar. A time when great hidden joy emerges great pain.

Today it is hard to conceive what joy might be hidden in the tragedy.

Today a new home was begun. The wedding was a fairytale one, only built around real, solid love and respect.

Today is one of those days in which life is intense, stunning… and very very real.

Today I am travelling, and feeling so very far from home.

Today is a day when we say: We don’t know where we are being taken, but we know it is a good place. “To Everything there is a Time and a Season to every Purpose under the Heavens.”