Connection Everywhere: Intro
Five women connect to Yom Kippur in unexpected locations
Most women spend the holiest of days in tearful tefillah in their local shul or at home surrounded by their children. But these five women were propelled to far-flung places — a South American jungle, a Muslim airport, a secular kibbutz, a nursing home, and a city just hit by a hurricane — and had to push themselves to draw close to Hashem and connect to their tefillos, despite their surroundings.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 812)
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